Sydney Smith Quotes

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

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

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

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