Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

Those who are contemptuous of everyone are more than anyone terrified of contempt. Logan Pearsall Smith

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel. Logan Pearsall Smith

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

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Logan Pearsall Smith

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Isn’t it odd that flowers are the reproductive organs of the plants they grow on? Logan Pearsall Smith

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches. Logan Pearsall Smith

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

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! Logan Pearsall Smith

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. Logan Pearsall Smith
The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary. Logan Pearsall Smith

Don’t let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. Logan Pearsall Smith

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