| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| 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. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| 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] |
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