149 Quotes by 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.

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.

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

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.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.

A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.