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My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 312It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 2, pp. 31–32- Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 7, p. 205.
Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 317I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. II, letter to Miss Georgiana Harcourt (1838), p. 410The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 293- Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 307
- Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 2, p. 36
- Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 11, p. 415
- Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 310
- Sydney Smith1771–1845Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849), Introduction
- Sydney Smith1771–1845Referring 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
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Susan Sontag1933–2004“Susan Sontag Finds Romance,” interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930“Supreme Hypocrisy”, 29 March 2016Well, whoever Keyser Söze is, I can tell you he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
Kevin Spaceyborn 1959Oscar acceptance speech, Best Supporting Actor, The Usual Suspects (25 March 1996)