Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

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

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. - Logan Pearsall Smith

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? - Logan Pearsall Smith

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? - Logan Pearsall Smith

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? - Logan Pearsall Smith

What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say. - Logan Pearsall Smith

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! - Logan Pearsall Smith

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

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever renewed audiences before to reenact an ideal version of their lives. - Logan Pearsall Smith

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