Sydney Smith

Cited as Sydney Smith. — 9 quotations

[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.

The joyous and lepid consul.

The chuckling grin of noodles.

The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees.

That pedetentous pace and pedetentous mind in which it behooves the wise and virtuous improver to walk.

Close and relevant arguments have very little hold on the passions.

That strange simious, schoolboy passion of giving pain to others.

A line of coast certainly amounting, with its sinuosities, to more than 700 miles.

Men not versant with courts of justice.