Logan Pearsall Smith

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

There are two things to aim at in life first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

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.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others we boast.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

It is the dread of something happening something unknown and dreadful that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares were there a danger of their coming true

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!