Quote

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

Sydney Smith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sydney Smith
Faults
Private
Possible
Rather
Find
Must
Time
Offense
Fault

More quotes by Sydney Smith

Image
Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.
Sydney Smith
Image
People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination
Sydney Smith
Image
Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
Sydney Smith
Image
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Sydney Smith
Image
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
Image
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
Image
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
Sydney Smith
Image
He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.
Sydney Smith
Image
What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?
Sydney Smith
Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
Sydney Smith
Image
we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
Sydney Smith
Image
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.
Sydney Smith
Image
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.
Sydney Smith
Image
Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
Sydney Smith
Image
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Sydney Smith
Image
If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
Sydney Smith
Image
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
Image
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Sydney Smith
Image
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
Sydney Smith
Image
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Sydney Smith