59 Quotations by Logan Pearsall Smith
- 1. A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

- 2. A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them ...

- 3. All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into th ...

- 4. Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can ...

- 5. An evil name -- a drawback at first -- sheds luster on old age.

- 6. Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world let ...

- 7. Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his ...

- 8. Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

- 9. Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

- 10. Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cel ...

- 11. Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

- 12. He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

- 13. How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

- 14. How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat an ...

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

- 16. How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming tr ...

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

- 18. I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

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

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

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