Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
life math culture
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
mistake errors alliances
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.
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
beer ideas two
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?
flirting bishops
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."
happiness home house
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
life friendship food
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
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
reading book furniture
No furniture is so charming as books.
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.
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.
animate atoms onion within
Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole.