Sydney Smith quotes Born: 06/03/1771 Country: united_kingdom

• Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. (Sydney Smith) [life]
• I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. (Sydney Smith)
• Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. (Sydney Smith) [find/find/time]
• Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. (Sydney Smith) [men/people/time]
• How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service. (Sydney Smith) [willpower/service]
• A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage. (Sydney Smith) [talent/courage]
• Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory. (Sydney Smith) [shame]
• It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. (Sydney Smith) [right/faith]
• Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. (Sydney Smith) [life/love/happiness]
• A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. (Sydney Smith) [source/happiness/health/conscience]
• It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. (Sydney Smith)
• What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? (Sydney Smith) [life]
• Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. (Sydney Smith)
• Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. (Sydney Smith) [clothes]
• Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. (Sydney Smith) [duties/life/more]
• Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. (Sydney Smith) [courage/order/being]
• Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. (Sydney Smith) [etiquette/love/respect]
• To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence. (Sydney Smith) [love/happiness]
• Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. (Sydney Smith)
• No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. (Sydney Smith) [start/being/willpower/being]
• Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. (Sydney Smith) [time/mind]
• It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. (Sydney Smith)
• The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. (Sydney Smith) [mankind/intellect/human]
• His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. (Sydney Smith) [enemies/silence/conversation]
• Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. (Sydney Smith) [nature/talent/nature/willpower]
• Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. (Sydney Smith) [solitude]
• He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. (Sydney Smith) [silence/conversation]
• A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor. (Sydney Smith) [nation/day/child/take]
• All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life. (Sydney Smith) [class/inspires/life]
• Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. (Sydney Smith)
• No furniture is so charming as books. (Sydney Smith) [furniture/books]

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