Zitate von Sydney Smith
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Sydney Smith:
Die Liebe ist eine Illusion von Flügeln und eine Wirklichkeit von Ketten.
Informationen über Sydney Smith
Geistlicher, Schriftsteller (England, 1771 - 1845).
Sydney Smith · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Sydney Smith wäre heute 252 Jahre, 11 Monate, 15 Tage oder 92.391 Tage alt.
Geboren am 03.06.1771 in Woodford (Essex)
Gestorben am 22.02.1845 in London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge
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Weitere 74 Zitate von Sydney Smith
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Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
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Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
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Deserves to be preached to death by wild curates.
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Digestion is the great secret of life.
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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. From pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief.
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He [Macaulay] has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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He [Macaulay] is like a book in breeches.
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He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
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How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, 'I will see you in the vestry after service.'
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I am just going to pray for you at St Paul's, but with no very lively hope of success.
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I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
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I have seen nobody since I saw you, but persons in orders. My only varieties are vicars, rectors, curates, and every now and then (by way of turbot) an archdeacon.
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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
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I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together.
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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes - some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong - and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.
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It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale, and gin, and cider, and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?
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It is natural to every man to wish for distinction; and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart; but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a duty which we owe not more to our own happiness than to the quiet of the world at large.
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It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.
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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
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