Sydney Smith Quotes
+1Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life.
- Sydney Smith
+1Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
- Sydney Smith
+1He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
- Sydney Smith
+1Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
– Sydney Smith
+1Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
- Sydney Smith
+1What would life be without arithmetic but a scene of horrors?
- Sydney Smith
+1We cultivate literature on a little oat meal.
- Sydney Smith
+1Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
- Sydney Smith
+1We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it to only the best books.
- Sydney Smith
+1Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense,till death stares them in the face.
- Sydney Smith
+1Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
- Sydney Smith
+1Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come; desire is the wish it may come.
- Sydney Smith
+1In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
- Sydney Smith
+1No furniture so charming as books.
- Sydney Smith
-1My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon.
- Sydney Smith
