List of Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

When We Say We Are Certain So-and-so Can't Possibly Have Done It, What We Mean Is That We Think He Very Likely Did.

I Might Give My Life For My Friend, But He Had Better Not Ask Me To Do Up A Parcel.

People Have A Right To Be Shocked; The Mention Of Unmentionable Things Is A Kind Of Participation In Them.

I Like To Walk Down Bond Street, Thinking Of All The Things I Don't Desire.

A Friend Who Loved Perfection Would Be The Perfect Friend, Did Not That Love Shut His Door On Me.

When They Come Downstairs From Their Ivory Towers, Idealists Are Very Apt To Walk Straight Into The Gutter.

The Vitality Of A New Movement In Art Must Be Gauged By The Fury It Arouses.

He Who Goes Against The Fashion Is Himself Its Slave

We Should Nourish Our Souls On The Dew Of Poesy, And Manure Them As Well.

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.

Charming People Live Up To The Very Edge Of Their Charm, And Behave As Outrageously As The World Will Let Them.

It Is Through The Cracks In Our Brains That Ecstasy Creeps In.