Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
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
Behinds
Vanities
Listen
Humiliation
Behind
Delicious
Enjoy
Gossip
Back
Vanity
Find
Subject
Things
Conversation
Subjects
Humiliations
More quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
Logan Pearsall Smith
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Logan Pearsall Smith
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
Logan Pearsall Smith
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
Logan Pearsall Smith
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
Logan Pearsall Smith
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan Pearsall Smith
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Logan Pearsall Smith
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop you.
Logan Pearsall Smith
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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
We need new friends some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
Logan Pearsall Smith
