Quotes by : Logan Pearsall Smith

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

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

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

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

One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that dusky....

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

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

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

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