Best Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
- All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call… Abyss
- Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them. Behave
- Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out. Eye
- He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave Fashion
- How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! Bigot
- Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. Blooms
- Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. Entirely
- Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril. Controlled
- You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate Both
- The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations. Inspirational
- The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. Body
- The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. Bewildered
- It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. Brain
- There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. Beautiful
- All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty. All
- Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. Among
- How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom Art
- When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. Affinity
- I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire. All
- People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them. Censorship
- So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. Accidents
- If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before. Burnt
- People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright… Bright
- 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… Audience
- An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things… Echo
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