Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
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.
beer ideas two
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?
oil people charity
You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence.
solitude littles cherish
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
strong joy belief
Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.
confidence courage fear
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
men religion trying
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.