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• Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267...
• No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
  Destiny is made known silently." -- Agnes De Mille...
• My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 262...
• Madam, I have been looking for person that dislikes gravy all my life
  let us swear eternal friendship. -- Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman and essayi...
• No furniture is as charming as books, even if you never open them. -- Sydney Smith
• Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. -- Rev. Sydney Smith
• One man's idea of hell is to be forced to remain in another man's idea of heaven.
• It would be an entertaining change in human affairs to determine everything by minoritie
  hey are almost always in the right. -- Sydney Smith...