All Sydney Smith Quotes
- 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… Berkeley
- No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. Begin
- 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… Constantly
- As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. Clergymen
- Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. Foible
- Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. Cherishes
- To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and… Back Shivering
- What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! Amusements
- Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the… Always Happy
- Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing Anything Else
- Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness,… Brightness
- The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche To love and be loved is the great happiness… Called
- I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion Confidence
- 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;… Anything Else
- To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence. Cute
- Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in… Always Punishing
- That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. Age
- To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. Bedtime
- What you don't know would make a great book. Book
- My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon Cities