Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick.


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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not bo...
SYDNEY SMITH
Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ...
SYDNEY HARRIS
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no m...
SYDNEY SMITH
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
SYDNEY SMITH
Gardens are a form of autobiography.
SYDNEY EDDISON
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...
SYDNEY SMITH
I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspirat...
SYDNEY WAYSER
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
SYDNEY MADWED
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni...
SYDNEY MADWED
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this all...
SYDNEY SMITH
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA coul...
SYDNEY BRENNER
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
SYDNEY SMITH
I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glasswar...
SYDNEY BRENNER
As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
SYDNEY SCHANBERG
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SYDNEY
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
ALGERNON SYDNEY
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
ALGERNON SYDNEY
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
ALGERNON SYDNEY
A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th...
ALGERNON SYDNEY
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology...
SYDNEY BRENNER
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
SYDNEY SMITH
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
SYDNEY SMITH
That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
SYDNEY SMITH
I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, rem...
SYDNEY SMITH
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY SMITH
The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
SYDNEY SMITH
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
SYDNEY SMITH
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
SYDNEY SMITH
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
SYDNEY SMITH
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of ex...
SYDNEY SMITH
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good co...
SYDNEY SMITH
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact ...
SYDNEY SMITH