Smith quotes

F E Smith is very clever, but sometimes he lets his brains go to his head. 36

- Margot Asquith
Quoted in The Wit of the Asquiths (published1974).

In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical that it must be anarduous and heroic matter for themanto live up to it† The name shouts poetryat you.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  Heretics, ch.3.

Fate tried to conceal him by calling him Smith.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  Of Samuel Francis Smith.'The Boys'.

When you meet Mr. Smith first you think he looks like an over-dressed pirate. Then you begin to think him a character.You wonder at his enormous bulk. Then the utter hopelessness of knowing what Smith is thinking by merely looking at his features gets on your mind and makes the Mona Lisa seem an open book and the ordinary human countenance as superficial as a puddle in the sunlight.

- Stephen Butler Leacock
  Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town,'The Hostelry of Mr. Smith'.

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  '  The Village Blacksmith', stanza1. Collected in Ballads and other Poems (1841).

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

-John D(avison), III Rockefeller
  On becomingWestVirginia's Secretary of State (before moving on to be Governor). In the NewYorkTimes, 4 Oct.