Best Logan Pearsall Smith Sayings
- Give me a bed and a book and I am happy. Bed
- I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me. Aloof
- Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads. Fields
- It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst. Burst
- All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them. All
- Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. Age
- Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy. Capable
- When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did. Certain
- It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out. Dread
- Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur. Apes
- Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. Bullets
- But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent… Adjectives
- To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever… All
- An improper mind is a perpetual feast. Ethics
- A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. Affection
- People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Book
- Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. Company
- Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! Coming
- Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. Author
- The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. Drudgery
- The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. Arouses
- What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. Author
- When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. Apt
- This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. Age
- What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations… Away Beyond
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