Quotes of Russell Lynes - somelinesforyou

“ No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved ”

- Russell Lynes

“ 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

“ The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved. ”

- Russell Lynes

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

- Russell Lynes

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

- Russell Lynes

“ 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

“ Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ 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

“ The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ”

- Russell Lynes

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

- Russell Lynes

“ Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ 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

“ 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

“ Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ”

- Russell Lynes

“ Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ”

- Russell Lynes

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

- 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
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