149 Quotes by 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.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

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.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.