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

#ignore #insult #laugh #off #probably

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

#conceal #game #like #our #play

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#cynicism #intellectual #intelligence #substitute

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

#attain #down #goal #higher #look

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

#another #coincide #lady #man

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

— Russell Lynes

#appreciative #break #child #death #fondle

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

— Russell Lynes

#excellent #him #journalist #novel #place

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

— Russell Lynes

#bad #bad taste #estimation #good #good taste

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

— Russell Lynes

#always #candor #friends #incredulity #own

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#century #fanfare #ragtime