Quotes About Sydney Smith

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

Sydney Smith is often compared to Swift; but this only shows with how little thought our common criticism is written. The two men have really nothing in common, except that they were both high in the Church, and both wrote amusing letters about Ireland.

He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture, painting, statuary and music.

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Heat, madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.

Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.