Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or brothers:
“Oh, don’t tell me of facts—I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably ... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)