Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smithwas an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His Words and Idioms made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, Unforgotten Years, for which he may be best remembered...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 October 1865
CountryUnited States of America
equality odd-things universe
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
art movement vitality
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
writing cells vanity
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
trust forgiveness truth
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
funny forgiveness forgiving
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
love dreaming-about-you nightmare
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
funny two needs
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
selfish nice reading
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
hypocrite hypocrisy house
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
mind pouring information
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.
people world charming
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
eye safe way
Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.
fashion slave
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
dark conviction drag
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!