Russell Lynes was a famous Critic from USA, who lived between December 2, 1910 and September 14, 1991. He/she became 80 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Russell.
12 Famous quotes by Russell Lynes
"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence"
"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars"
"Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century"
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it"
"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"
"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"
"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes"
"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity"
"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"
"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"
"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste"
