Sydney Smith Quotes

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith

Poverty, Disgrace

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
Sydney Smith

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Sydney Smith

Great, Solitude, Virtues

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

Love, Business, Rise

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Sydney Smith

Religion, England, Pity

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
Sydney Smith

Life, Scene, Arithmetic

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

It 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

Moving, Cannot, Between

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
Sydney Smith

Time, Mind, Nothing

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
Sydney Smith

Great, Truth, Dangerous

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

Good, Ready, Virtue

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Sydney Smith

Human, Keep, Forgetting

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Sydney Smith

Fact, Ourselves, Within

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

Thinking, Through, Worth

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 3, 1771

Died: February 22, 1845

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