Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. Sydney Smith More Quotes by Sydney Smith More Quotes From Sydney Smith You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. Sydney Smith He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop. Sydney Smith A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Sydney Smith Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. Sydney Smith 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. Sydney Smith Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. Sydney Smith He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. Sydney Smith I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Sydney Smith I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so. Sydney Smith It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. 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 It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. Sydney Smith 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. Sydney Smith Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. Sydney Smith To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. Sydney Smith What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. Sydney Smith Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing. Sydney Smith Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith shadowsrespectmannerslove
