Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes and Quotations
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.
We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find it out.
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.
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. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.