Author: Sydney Smith

Quotes

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

- Sydney Smith

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

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

- 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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

- Sydney Smith

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

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

- Sydney Smith

Live always in the best company when you read.

Live always in the best company when you read.

- Sydney Smith

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

- 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

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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