Logan Pearsall Smith

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

— Logan Pearsall Smith

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Advice is what we ask for when we know the answer but wish we didn't.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“Then I thought of reading—the nice and subtle happiness of reading. This was enough, this joy not dulled by Age, this polite…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people ... To suppose, as we all suppose,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thoughts; gay moods and…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky thoroughfare, as I was…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

— Logan Pearsall Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

— Logan Pearsall Smith