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Logan Pearsall Smith quotes

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

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

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

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

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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?

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

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The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

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

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