Top 48 Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

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

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

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

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

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

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.