Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

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

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

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.