Quotes from Logan Pearsall Smith


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    I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

    Forgive | Dying | Amusing


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

    God | Discover | Serve


    What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

    Hear | Voices | Enchanting


    Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

    Drop


    He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

    Fashion | Against | Slave


    The newest books are those that never grow old.

    Grow | Books | Newest


    There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

    Beautiful | Houses


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

    Communication | Good | Says


    Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

    Generation | Writers | Span


    If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

    Soul | Losing | Leisure


    Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

    Evil | Flourish | Among


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

    Dark | Bigot | Drag


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

    Vanity | Modest | Cell


    Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

    Youth | Laugh | Face


    What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

    Joy | Sweet | Bring


    People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

    Life | Mirror | Self


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

    Men | Far | Imagine


    There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

    Good | Income | Few


    The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

    Work | Money | Good


    Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

    Good | Conscience | Souls


       

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