Author:Sydney Smith

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Sydney Smith “The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. ”

Sydney Smith “Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society. ”

Sydney Smith “As the French say, there are three sexes,?men, women, and clergymen. ”

Sydney Smith “He deserves to be preached to death by wild curates. ”

Sydney Smith “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. ”

Sydney Smith “Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. ”

Sydney Smith “To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. ”

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