Sydney Smith1771–1845The quotations of
Sydney Smith
English wit, writer, Anglican cleric
1771–1845
28 quotes, most often on Clever Jabs, Comedy and Friendship.
- Peter Plymley’s Letters (1808), Letter IV
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 2, pp. 31–32- Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 7, p. 205.
Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 317- Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 2, p. 36
- Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 11, p. 415
- Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 310
- Referring to the lack of established culture and the established institution of slavery in the United States, in “Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States”, The Edinburgh Review (1820), pp. 79-80
