151 Quotes by Sydney Smith

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

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

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.