Francis Jeffrey Quotes
October 23, 1773 – June 26, 1850
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Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better one myself.
Francis Jeffrey— Sydney Smith, in a letter to Jeffrey, claimed this as his own parody of him: "If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke against you about the Moon and the Solar System;— 'Damn the solar system! bad light—planets too distant—pestered with comets—feeble contriviance;—could make a better with great ease.'" (The Review of English Studies New Series, vol. 44, pp. 430-432).
