"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."
― Sydney Smith
Topic(s):
Friendship
More From Sydney Smith
- "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
- "Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
- "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."
More In Friendship
- "In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life."― Ernst Mayr
- "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."― George MacDonald
- "I like high impact movies."― Kathryn Bigelow