Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
