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Horace Smith
6 quotes
“In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desart knows: — "I am great ," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand." — The City's gone, — Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose The site of this forgotten Babylon.We wonder, — and some Hunter may express Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace, He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in that annihilated place.”
Horace Smith (1779–1849) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below (published February 1, 1818); written in a competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley, for which Shel…
“Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought.”
Horace Smith (1779–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rejected Addresses. Cui Bono?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“In the name of the Prophet—figs.”
Horace Smith (1779–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Johnson's Ghost, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory.”
Horace Smith (1779–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Mummy at Belzoni's Exhibition, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Vanity—like laudanum, and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man, who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.”
Horace Smith (1779–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vol. 2, p. 179. Repeated in Frederick Saunders, Salad for the Social (New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1856), "The Toilette and its Devotees", p. 133; rev. ed. (New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1883), p. 320, replaces "Vanity"…
Also quoted by: Frederick Saunders (librarian)
“Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous.”
Horace Smith (1779–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source