Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

“Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.”

“Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches”

“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?”

“Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds”

“The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.”

“It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.”

“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.”

“Dont laugh at a youth for his affectations; hes only trying on one face after another till he finds his own”

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

“A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent”

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

“Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of ones own, it is always twenty times better.”

“Style is the perfection of a point of view”

“Eat with the Rich, but go to the play with the Poor, who are capable of Joy”

“There are people who are beautiful in dilapidation, like old houses that were hideous when new”

“Shopping: I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I dont want”

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

“What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?”

“There is one thing that matters / to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”

“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”