Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English writer and Anglican cleric.
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“It 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.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is ‘I will see you in the vestry after service.’”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendour.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)