Words matter. These are the best Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn’t a God.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
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.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
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.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Don’t let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
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.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
What’s more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can’t hear what they say?
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away?
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
I can’t forgive my friends for dying; I don’t find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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.
