Books Quote by 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 a meaning…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— 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, and don't…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

— Logan Pearsall Smith