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Sydney Smith Quotes

«Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship»
«Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | About: Facts | Keywords: Canning, fallacious
«That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present»
«A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | Keywords: ridicule
«No furniture is so charming as books»
«Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | About: Duty, Praise | Keywords: Duties of, not due, praising
«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.»
«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.»
«Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today»
«Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | Keywords: vanilla

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