Logan Pearsall Smith People Quotations

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

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

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

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

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

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