Top 90 Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

52. “Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters – to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

53. “The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

54. “Don’t laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

55. “Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

56. “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.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

57. “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 my mind.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

58. “It’s an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

59. “How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

60. “It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

61. “The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

62. “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

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

64. “The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

65. “The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

66. “What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

67. “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 listen to them.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

68. “To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

69. “We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

70. “It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

71. “Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

72. “How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

73. “The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

74. “I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

75. “Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn’t a God.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

76. “People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

77. “What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

78. “If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

79. “There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

80. “Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

81. “What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away?”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

82. “Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

83. “Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

84. “Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

85. “Don’t let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

86. “If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

87. “When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

88. “I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

89. “There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

90. “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.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

91. “The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

93. “A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

96. “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 cured at all, by years of painful treatment.”

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith