~ Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

[MysteRy]

Every author however modest keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

[MysteRy]

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

[MysteRy]

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?

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

[MysteRy]

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.