Quote #20
No furniture so charming as books.
More from Sydney Smith
- Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.
- Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
- Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.
- He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
- Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, - nothing so expensive as glory.
- Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
- Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence…
- My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.