Saba, Lady Holland (; 1802âÂÂ1866) was the eldest daughter of Sydney Smith and the second wife of Sir Henry Holland, a prominent physician and travel writer, with whom she had two daughters. She made a name for herself as the author of a much-read memoir of her famous father.
Some of Smith's often-quoted sayings were first recorded in Lady Holland's memoir, including:<blockquote>Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.</blockquote> and <blockquote>Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. I can drink any quantity when I have not tasted wine.; otherwise I am haunted by blue devils by day, and dragons by night.</blockquote>
Her daughters were Caroline Holland (1834âÂÂ1909; author of Notebooks of a Spinster Lady, published posthumously in 1919) and Gertrude Holland (1840âÂÂ1898).