149 Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

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

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

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

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

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.

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