Sydney Smith Quotes

I am just going to pray for you at St Paul’s, but with no very lively hope of success.

My idea of heaven is, eating pate de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.

Serenely full, the epicure would say, ‘Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.’

Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, half-suspected, animate the whole.

He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

I heard him [Jeffrey] speak disrespectfully of the Equator!