Quotes by : Sydney Smith

No furniture is so charming as books.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture....

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight....

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

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.....

To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and....

That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.

You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.