Author: Sydney Smith

Quotes

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

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

- Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

- Sydney Smith

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

- Sydney Smith

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

- Sydney Smith

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

- Sydney Smith

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

- Sydney Smith

What you don't know would make a great book.

What you don't know would make a great book.

- Sydney Smith

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

- Sydney Smith

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

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

- Sydney Smith

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