« All All Quotes · Sydney Smith's Page
All Quotes by Sydney Smith
- Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
- It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
- Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
- It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of…
- Praise is the best diet for us, after all
More All Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide