Sydney Smith

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#inferior #look #scotland #sort #switzerland

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#book #i #man #never #prejudices

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. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#anything #base #flexible #gained #generous

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#dean #done #heads #lay #their

Live always in the best company when you read. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#best #company #live #read #you

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

— Sydney Smith

#habit #melancholy #never #resist #steadily

Marriage 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

#always #anyone #between #cannot #comes

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

— Sydney Smith

#being #end #ever #inferior #man

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

— Sydney Smith

#inconvenient #man #poverty #us

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#his #omniscience #science