Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl
And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.
Quotes from Lady Holland's Memoir — Sydney Smith
1771–1845 England
50 quotes
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Economy, in the estimation of common minds, often means the absence of all taste and comfort.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
As the French say, there are three sexes — men, women, and clergymen.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory: nothing so expensive as glory.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
The fox, when caught, is worth nothing: he is followed for the pleasure of following.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sydney Smith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.