Source: The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches
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Famous Sydney Smith Quotes
“No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.”
Source: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806
“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Source: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.”
“Some men have only one book in them, others a library.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.”
“You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.”
“Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.”
Source: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 by the Late Rev. Sydney Smith, M.A
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Source: The works
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
“The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.”
Source: A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Source: Letters
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.”
“Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Source: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy
“we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Source: The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Three Volumes Complete in One