Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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.

Dont tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

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.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

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.

Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.

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

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

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

What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!

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

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

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

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.

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

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

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

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?