65 ordspråk av Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
 I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion |
| I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together |
| I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so |
| It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. |
| It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart; but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a |
| Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole. |
| Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. |
| Live always in the best company when you read. |
| Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship |
| Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble |
| Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it |
| Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. |
| Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. |
| Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. |
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