Russell Lynes quotes | Thousands Of Quotes

Search for quotes

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Russell Lynes

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Russell Lynes

Intelligence

Cynicism

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Russell Lynes

Insult

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

Russell Lynes

Taste

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Russell Lynes

People

Goal

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Russell Lynes

Stars

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.