Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
helps men
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
business love
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
great
What you don't know would make a great book.
berkeley bishop destroyed similar time volume
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
base flexible gained good moderately safest
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
best
Live always in the best company when you read.
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
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.
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 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.
coffee understanding want
If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
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.
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.
reading book furniture
No furniture is so charming as books.