Famous Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

  • A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. More
  • How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! More
  • People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. More
  • What’s more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can’t hear what they say? More
  • If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we’ve burnt them so hatefully before. More
  • We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a... More
  • I can’t forgive my friends for dying; I don’t find these vanishing acts of theirs at all... More
  • There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. More
  • There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. More
  • The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly... More
  • The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most... More
  • What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers. More
  • He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. More
  • The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. More
  • The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. More
  • The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection—even though nothing more than the... More
  • The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.... To suppose, as we all... More
  • Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on... More
  • The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. More
  • What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away? More
  • The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. More
  • Growing old is no gradual decline, but a series of tumbles, full of sorrow, from one ledge to... More
  • Don’t let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. More
  • Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. More
  • Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! More
  • There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. More
  • That we should practise what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and... More
  • What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing... More
  • The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary. More
  • How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! More
  • Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. More
  • Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn’t a God. More
  • When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into... More
  • Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world... More
  • We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. More
  • Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. More
  • There is one thing that matters—to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few... More

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