I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion

Quote by Sydney Smith

Topics: Confidence Quotes

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join...

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join...

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and...

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and...

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and...

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and...

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for...

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for...

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that...

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that...

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a...

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a...

No furniture is so charming as books.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let...

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let...

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep...

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep...

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food,...

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food,...

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for...

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for...

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient

Praise is the best diet for us, after all

Praise is the best diet for us, after all

Thankful that God's love is independent of me without being indifferent toward me.

Thankful that God's love is independent of me without being indifferent toward me.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Fool's praise is censure

Fool's praise is censure