Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
reputation shame glory
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.
life half world
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
sarcastic
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
life math culture
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
together done dean
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
mistake errors alliances
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
giving way melancholy
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
scotland looks switzerland
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
beauty running trying
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
love respect quality
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
important praise duty
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
faults offense ifs
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
loyalty imagination people
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 custom, or their lack of imagination
children men water
He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.