diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index a93b84c0289..d42e8244e4c 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -145,8 +145,12 @@ html_theme_path = ["../themes/"]
 
 # If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
 # typographically correct entities.
+# This was depreciated in Sphinx 1.6.6
 #html_use_smartypants = True
 
+# We don't want smartquotes in general.
+smartquotes = False
+
 # Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
 #html_sidebars = {}