Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
book man prejudices reviewing
I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so
bishop service
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, "I will see you in the vestry after service
bones dreadful flesh found left sit
Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones
courage deal great lost talent
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
bread class common inspires pleasures prefer rich sight
All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
blaze born child chuckle drawn free grown house limbs might nation revolutions-and-revolutionaries single sword vigor
A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
fool fools-and-foolishness law man talks
The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool
man minutes together
I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together
army views trust-in-god
Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.
Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.