“The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.”
Logan Pearsall Smith“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”
Logan Pearsall Smith“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.”
Logan Pearsall Smith“We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.”
Logan Pearsall Smith“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?”
Logan Pearsall Smith“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.”
Logan Pearsall Smith“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”
Logan Pearsall Smith“What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.”
Logan Pearsall Smith“Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.”
Logan Pearsall Smith“What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.”
Logan Pearsall Smith“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
Logan Pearsall Smith