In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. – Sydney Smith
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. I can drink any quantity when I have not tasted wine; otherwise I am haunted by blue-devils by day, and dragons by night. – Sydney Smith, quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith: Volume I by his d