Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

Every author however modest keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cel...

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world wil...

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming tru...

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat...

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he find...

How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar ...

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cel...

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see the...

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and...

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Onl...

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat an...

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. O...

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.

Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assist...

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ...

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assist...

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the ...

One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that d...