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Author: Reverend Sydney Smith
He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Insults
Of Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle
What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Beer
England
Food/Drink
Places
[British politician Thomas Macaulay] has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Communication
Speech
Scotland: That garret of the earth – that knuckle-end of England – that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Insults
Places
Scotland
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
England
Places
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Entertainment
People
Places
Humor
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Scotland
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Education
Insults
Learning
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Places
Scotland
Switzerland
What you don't know would make a good book.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Insults
Intelligence
Knowledge
My handwriting looks as if a swarm of ants, escaping from an ink bottle, had walked over a sheet of paper without wiping their legs.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Communication
People
Reading/Writing
Self
Criticism
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Education
Insults
Learning
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Books
Communication
Reading/Writing
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Money
Poverty
… there are three sexes – men, women, and clergymen.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Occupations
People
Clergymen
Marriage… resembles a pair of shears so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Reverend Sydney Smith
(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Marriage
Shears