Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
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If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
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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.
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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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.
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.
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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 all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart; but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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He deserves to be preached to death by wild curates
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He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful
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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.
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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
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To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence