Quotes by Lynes, Russell

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

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it o >>

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, an >>

Quotations about Women

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellenc >>

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifl >>

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is man >>

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.

Lynes, Russell