Quotes by Sydney Smith

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

#Friendship

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

#Age, #Funny

Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy...

#Happiness, #Humanity, #Mankind

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you...

#Success

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

#Laughter

No furniture is so charming as books.

#Books

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

#Regret, #Time

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is...

#Life

I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion

#Confidence

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent....

#Famous Love, #Love

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

#Mankind

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving...

#Marriage