Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

About Logan Pearsall Smith:

Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, Unforgotten Years, for which he may be best remembered.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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 stay sober.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

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.

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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

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

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

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

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

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There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

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

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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Author Bio

  • NameLogan Pearsall Smith
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornOctober 18, 1865
  • DiedMarch 2, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAuthor