John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4868 Sydney Smith 1771-1845 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4868 |
| AUTHOR: | Sydney Smith (1771–1845) |
| QUOTATION: | As the French say, there are three sexes,—men, women, and clergymen. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Lady Holland’s Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262. |
| Note 1. Lord Wharncliffe says, “The well-known sentence, almost a proverb, that ‘this world consists of men, women, and Herveys,’ was originally Lady Montagu’s.”—Montagu Letters, vol. i. p. 64. [back] |