Quotes by Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith

English writer and cleric

Lived from: 1856 - 1934

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 11 april 1856 Died: 21 february 1934

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  • It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
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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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  • Live always in the best company when you read.
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  • Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
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  • Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
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  • Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
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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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  • Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
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  • Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
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  • No furniture is so charming as books.
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  • No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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  • Oh, don't tell me of facts - I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
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  • The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
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  • The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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  • The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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  • To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
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  • What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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  • 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.
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