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Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposi...
SYDNEY SMITH
An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument
SYDNEY SMITH
Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decis...
SYDNEY POLLACK
Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passa...
SYDNEY BRENNER
Slavery is stupid
SYDNEY PENNER
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...
SYDNEY SMITH
No furniture is so charming as books
SYDNEY SMITH
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposi...
SYDNEY SMITH
A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a Curate!!!
SYDNEY SMITH
Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society
SYDNEY SMITH
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich ke...
SYDNEY SMITH
As the French say, there are three sexes, - men, women, and clergymen
SYDNEY SMITH
Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them h...
SYDNEY SMITH
He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful
SYDNEY SMITH
That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present
SYDNEY SMITH
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no...
SYDNEY SMITH
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, "I will see you in the vestry afte...
SYDNEY SMITH
The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle o...
SYDNEY SMITH
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
SYDNEY SMITH
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, nothing is so expensive as glory
SYDNEY SMITH
Praise is the best diet for us, after all
SYDNEY SMITH
Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given...
SYDNEY SMITH
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends...
SYDNEY SMITH
To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence
SYDNEY SMITH
Having heard the bishop I am now convinced of the apostolic succession from Judas Iscariot
SYDNEY SMITH