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
Logan Pearsall Smith quotes about
death stars writing
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
years youth kind
To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
mind ethics perpetual
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
friends dream giving-up
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
brain cracks creeps
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
want generations young
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
sorrow age ledges
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
beauty trying loses
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
giving new-friendship might
I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.
science statistics ratios
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.
funny two needs
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
funny forgiveness forgiving
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
trust forgiveness truth
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
beautiful people house
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.