Logan Pearsall Smith
25 quotations
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?