Logan Pearsall Smith
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.Collection: Writing
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.Collection: Marriage
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.Collection: Men
If it's to be, it's up to me.Collection: Inspirational
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.Collection: Meaning Of Life
All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.Collection: Mirrors
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truthCollection: Funny
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!Collection: Love
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.Collection: Men
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.Collection: Inspirational
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.Collection: Mystical Experiences
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.Collection: Trust
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.Collection: Beauty
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.Collection: Weed
Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.Collection: Kept Woman
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.Collection: Reflection
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.Collection: Birthday
If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.Collection: Hands
Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.Collection: Magic
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.Collection: Art