Sydney Smith > Quotes

“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.”
― Sydney Smith

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little...”
― Sydney Smith, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution ... 1804, 1805 and 1806

“When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.”
― Sydney Smith, Peter Plymley's Letters And Selected Essays

“But I know you. You will be alright.”
― Sydney Smith, Small in the City

“You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.”
― Sydney Smith

“Fiction is life with the dull bits cut out.”
― Sydney Smith

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.”
― Sydney Smith