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
gossip people awful
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
vanity gossip behind-my-back
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
mirrors faces
All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
marriage people life-and-death
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
weed flower ignorance
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.
income matter temperament
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
dark conviction drag
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
eye safe way
Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.
life birthday success
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
love friendly amusement
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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.
ivory-tower towers gutters
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
writing cells vanity
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
love dreaming-about-you nightmare
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!