Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

Don’t tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
- Logan Pearsall Smith

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

What I like in a good author is not what he says,but what he whispers.
- 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

Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
- Logan Pearsall Smith

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- 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 old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
- 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

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
- Logan Pearsall Smith

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
- Logan Pearsall Smith