Russell Lynes Quotes
"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."
- Russell Lynes
(Related: Stars)
"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
(Related: People, Goal)
"Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century."
- Russell Lynes
"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."
- Russell Lynes
(Related: Wife, Lady, Man, Nothing, Woman)
"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."
- Russell Lynes
(Related: Taste)
"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
(Related: Insult)
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
- Russell Lynes
"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."
- Russell Lynes
(Related: Intelligence, Cynicism)
"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."
- Russell Lynes
(Related: Play, Secrets, Want)
"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes."
- Russell Lynes
(Related: Death, Successful, Will)
"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
(Related: Architecture, History, Americans, Building, Name, Today)