Sydney Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!”

“What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?”

“What you don't know would make a great book.”

“Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.”

“It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.”

“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.”

“I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.”

“Live always in the best company when you read.”

“It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.”