Quotes by : Logan Pearsall Smith

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves....

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists....

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will....

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?....

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

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed....

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

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