Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
music earth rapture
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
happiness today tomorrow
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
tea creation coffee-and-tea
I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
reading book furniture
No furniture is so charming as books.
confidence courage nature
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
tea thank-god world
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
coffee understanding want
If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
inspirational motivational acting
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
love friendship happiness
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
mistake writing dresses
The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.
inspirational motivational success
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
convince effect fool hear man produces talk
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
cost dearest everybody eyes
The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping