Quotes by : Logan Pearsall Smith

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....

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

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of....

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

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....

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.