Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

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

What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

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.

Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

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 an ideal version of their lives.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

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

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.