A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. – Sydney Smith
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. – Sydney Smith
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith
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. – Sydney Smith
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness… Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour. – Richard Eyre