Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

Logan Pearsall Smith
American Writer
Born: Oct 18, 1865
Died: Mar 2, 1946
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. Logan Pearsall Smith
Funny Truth You Liar Thought Tell Always Want
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. Logan Pearsall Smith
Youth Face Own Laugh Find Only He Another His Trying After
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. Logan Pearsall Smith
World Kind Neither Finest Delicate Make Hearts Company Tongues
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. Logan Pearsall Smith
Happiness Wine Rarest Insipid Seems Vulgar Taste Vintage
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. Logan Pearsall Smith
Walk Apt Gutter Idealists Towers Come Very Ivory Straight Downstairs
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. Logan Pearsall Smith
People World Edge Live Charm Charming Up Very Behave Them Lets
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. Logan Pearsall Smith
Sad Old Young Bewildered Know Want
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. Logan Pearsall Smith
Gone Enjoy Sun Out Go Thank Heaven
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. Logan Pearsall Smith
Good People Live Most Souls Sell Proceeds Conscience
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. Logan Pearsall Smith
Love Our Slight Those Touch Towards Affections Malice Friendly Flat Them Turning Keeps Amusement
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. Logan Pearsall Smith
Beautiful People Like Houses Who
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. Logan Pearsall Smith
God Those Out Both Soon Discover Who Serve Set
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. Logan Pearsall Smith
Chill Once Bad Morally More Throw Almost Years Off Body Grow Conscience Fragile
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. Logan Pearsall Smith
Fashion He Himself Goes Against Who Slave
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. Logan Pearsall Smith
Work Good Money Good Work Devil Retiring Most Making Making Money Familiar Artists Then Notion Traps Popular
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. Logan Pearsall Smith
Love Vocation Drudgery Involves Test
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. Logan Pearsall Smith
Life Mind My Life Abyss Down All My Life Van Oblivion Pouring Bottom Call Without Been Information Vacancy Loads
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. Logan Pearsall Smith
Day Rich All Day Stay Drink Could Suppose Like Supposing Behave Sober
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. Logan Pearsall Smith
Our Through Ecstasy Brains Cracks Creeps
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. Logan Pearsall Smith
Life People Thought Mirror Before Live Others Outside Self Feel Faint Public Themselves Bright Grows Flourish Imagined
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. Logan Pearsall Smith
Good Few Poignant Sorrows However Which Avail Income
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. Logan Pearsall Smith
Every Madman Vanity Outrageous Like Most However His Author Cell Modest Padded Chained Keeps

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