14 Quotations by Russell Lynes
- 1. A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is ...
- 2. A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift wi ...
- 3. Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the million ...
- 4. Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to ...
- 5. Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
- 6. Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
- 7. 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 ...
- 8. It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor, but to regard those of your friends w ...
- 9. Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
- 10. The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ...
- 11. The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, qu ...
- 12. The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you ca ...
- 13. The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token ...
- 14. What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middl ...
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