Quotes about Sydney Smith

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to...

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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the...

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

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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time,...

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As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

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

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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little...

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

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