Famous Quotes | All this class of pleasures...

All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life. - Sydney Smith
Attribution: Sydney Smith (1771–1845), British journalist, clergyman. Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, The Smith of Smiths, ch. 13 (1934). Of the theatrical arts.

Categories: Clergyman, Journalist, Theater

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