All Sydney Smith Quotes
- we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today Business
- No furniture is so charming as books. Book
- Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Born
- If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Coffee
- The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten?… Amuse
- If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Begin
- People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of… Call
- I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. Always Fear
- 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 his… Better
- It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. All
- Heaven never helps the men who will not act. Act
- Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. Avoid
- I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so. Book
- It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just,… Always Ready
- Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. Clothes
- Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Confoundedly
- Live always in the best company when you read. Best
- Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. Chance
- I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Alas
- Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. All