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Sydney Smith Quotes
«Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship»
«Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures»
«Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.»
«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.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
feebleness, fortified, fortifies, fortify, fortifying, preaching, remind, resolutions, supply, The Object of
«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.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
Berkeley, bishop, Bishop Berkeley, Hume, octavo