Man Wishes Quotes by Sydney Smith

Live always in the best company when you read.

— Sydney Smith

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

— Sydney Smith

My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon

— Sydney Smith

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient

— Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

— Sydney Smith

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

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

— Sydney Smith

Silence is a girl's loudest shout

— Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men…

— Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in…

— Sydney Smith

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury…

— Sydney Smith

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

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

— Sydney Smith

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying…

— Sydney Smith

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

— Sydney Smith