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How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? the most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service (Sydney Smith Quotes)
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful (Sydney Smith Quotes)
All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best (Sydney Smith Quotes)
It is astonishing the influence foolish apothegms have upon the mass of mankind, though they are not unfrequently fallacies (Sydney Smith Quotes)
We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books (Sydney Smith Quotes)
What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is, that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth (Sydney Smith Quotes)
No man, I fear, can effect great benefits for his country without some sacrifice of the minor virtues (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit that no wit will bear repetition; - at least the original electrical feeling produced by any piece of wit can never be renewed (Sydney Smith Quotes)
I believe one reason why women are generally so much more cheerful than men is because they can work with the needle, and so endlessly vary their employment (Sydney Smith Quotes)
It is wonderful what a different view we take of the same event four and twenty hours after if has happened (Sydney Smith Quotes)
You pity a man who is lame or blind, but you never pity him for being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune (Sydney Smith Quotes)
It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and cider and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart - horses drink ale? (Sydney Smith Quotes)
It is always considered as a piece of impertinence in England, if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinion at all upon important subjects (Sydney Smith Quotes)
There is the same difference between their tongues as between the hour and the minute hand; one goes ten times as fast, and the other signifies ten times as much (Sydney Smith Quotes)
We must despise no sort of talents; they all have their separate duties and uses, all the happiness of man for their object; they all improve, exalt, and gladden life (Sydney Smith Quotes)
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures. The sense informs the soul. Whatever you have, have beauty (Sydney Smith Quotes)
All mankind are happier for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it (Sydney Smith Quotes)
The fact is, that to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can (Sydney Smith Quotes)
I think it was Jekyll who used to say that the further he went west, the more convinced he felt that the wise men came from the east (Sydney Smith Quotes)
If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from all fermented liquors (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading; a practice of itself sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Fortitude, justice, and candor are very necessary instruments of happiness, but they require time and exertion (Sydney Smith Quotes)
The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas that it is very deservedly driven out of good company (Sydney Smith Quotes)
One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Duelling, though barbarous in civilized, is a highly civilized institution among barbarous people, and when compared to assassination, is a prodigious victory gained over human passions (Sydney Smith Quotes)
I shall never apologize to you for egotism. I think very few men writing to their friends have enough of it (Sydney Smith Quotes)
Mankind are always happier for having been happier; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it (Sydney Smith Quotes)
The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping (Sydney Smith Quotes)