Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English writer and Anglican cleric.
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“A Curate there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a curate!!!”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of ‘Wut,’ is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)