Quote #25
As the French say, there are three sexes, - men, women, and clergymen.
More from Sydney Smith
- My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
- Praise is the best diet for us, after all.
- Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
- Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
- 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.
- Live always in the best company when you read.
- Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
- Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.