Russell Lynes Quotes

• A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.

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• When it gets dark enough you can see the stars

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• 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.

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• Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

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

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• 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.

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• Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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• 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.

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Russell Lynes (12)

Birth:	2nd December, 1910
Death:	14th September, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Historian, Photographer

About

Russell Lynes was an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Lynes was the younger son of Adelaide and Joseph Russell Lynes. His older brother was the photographer George Platt Lynes.

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