Frases de Sydney Smith (78 citações, página 2)

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Sydney Smith Frases famosas

“O maior de todos os erros é não fazer nada só porque se pode fazer pouco. Faça o que lhe for possível.”

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“Não há vergonha nenhuma em se ser pobre, mas é deveras incômodo.”

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“A melhor maneira de responder a um mau argumento é deixá-lo continuar.”

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“Não gosto nem um pouco do campo; é uma espécie de sepultura saudável.”

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Fonte: Revista Caras, 13 de Setembro de 2006.

“O casamento se assemelha a uma tesoura; lâminas tão presas entre si que dificilmente podem ser separadas, se movendo geralmente em direções opostas e, no entanto, sempre ferindo qualquer um que se coloque entre elas.”

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Did you ever hear my definition of marriage ? It is, that it resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated ; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith‎ - Volume 1, Página 820 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=TcY7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA820, Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland - Harper & Brothers, 1856

“Ele tinha momentos ocasionais de silêncio que tornavam sua conversa um prazer.”

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he has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful
A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith - Volume 1, Página 320 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=8go3AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA320, Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland - Harper & Brothers, 1856

Sydney Smith frases e citações

“O governo não é estabelecido para vantagem dos governantes, mas sim dos governados.”

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“Nunca leio um livro antes de o analisar: a leitura influencia negativamente.”

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De livros , Leitura

“Muitos talentos se perdem por falta de um pouco de coragem.”

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Coragem

“Uma grande quantidade de talento é disperdiçada pela falta de um pouco de coragem. Cada dia envia para seus túmulos homens obscuros, cuja timidez os impediu de fazer uma primeira tentativa.”

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De homens , Coragem

Sydney Smith: Frases em inglês

“To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.”

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Vol. I, p. 265
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.”

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Vol. I, p. 53
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”

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Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort.”

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Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)

“He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.”

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Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

“In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigour it will give your style.”

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Vol. I, ch. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=R18JAAAAQAAJ&q=%22In+composing+as+a+general+rule+run+your+pen+through+every+other+word+you+have+written+you+have+no+idea+what+vigour+it+will+give+your+style%22&pg=PA382#v=onepage
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

“When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.”

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Peter Plymley's Letters (1808), Letter IV

“The fact is that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 6

“"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."”

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Vol. I, p. 267
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.”

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"America", published in The Edinburgh Review (July 1824)

“Every increase of knowledge may possibly render depravity more depraved, as well as it may increase the strength of virtue. It is in itself only power; and its value depends on its application.”

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Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364

“You remember Thurlow's answer to some one complaining of the injustice of a company. "Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? they have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick."”

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Vol. I, ch. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=RpYEAAAAYAAJ&q="You+remember+Thurlow's+answer+to+some+one+complaining+of+the+injustice+of+a+company+Why+you+never+expected+justice+from+a+company+did+you+they+have+neither+a+soul+to+lose+nor+a+body+to+kick"&pg=PA331#v=onepage
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

“Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.”

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Vol. I, p. 157
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke against you about the Moon and the Solar System;—"Damn the solar system! bad light — planets too distant — pestered with comets — feeble contriviance; — could make a better with great ease."”

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As quoted in "Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831" by David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen, in The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 44, No. 175, (1993), pp. 430-432
Letter to Lord Jeffrey

“That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.”

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Vol. I, ch. 2
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.”

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"Of Friendship"
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

“Praise is the best diet for us, after all.”

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Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

“In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm [at Sidmouth], Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused; Mrs. Partington's spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal; the Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington.”

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Speech at Taunton (1813)

“Macaulay is like a book in breeches…He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.”

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Vol. I, ch. 11
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.”

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Lady Holland's Memoir (1855) Vol. I, ch. 11, p. 415
Variante: Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.