Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
business love
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
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.
love friendship happiness
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
cute-love great happiness love loved sweet-love
To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
existence greatest happiness love loved
To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence
man minutes together
I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together
grave healthy relish
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave
book man prejudices reviewing
I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so
body cover exposed intellect mind
Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed
cannot dined fate harm today
Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today
believe except figures
Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures
alliance dangerous deal errors extensive great obtain truth
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.
intended nature thousand worse
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing
desert intended line nature thousand whatever worse
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.