Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
Author
Literary Critic
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Bring
Literature
Taken
Half
Away
Years
Unhappiness
Sweet
Joy
More quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith
If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
Logan Pearsall Smith
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Logan Pearsall Smith
Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop you.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
Logan Pearsall Smith
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
Logan Pearsall Smith
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
Logan Pearsall Smith
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?
Logan Pearsall Smith
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
Logan Pearsall Smith
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
People have a right to be shocked the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
