Top 43 Russell Lynes Quotes

#1. Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

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#2. If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative.

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#3. And I thought I had problems? Look at your face!

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#4. Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

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#5. 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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#6. Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.

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#7. What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

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#8. The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

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#9. I'm sorry, I'm a little busy. Can i ignore you later?

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#10. There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

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#11. Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.

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#12. Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

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#13. Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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#14. Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.

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#15. 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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#16. Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

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#17. I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.

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#18. Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.

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#19. Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice ...

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#20. 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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#21. The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

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#22. For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

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#23. Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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.

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#27. Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

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#28. Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

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

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#30. Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

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#31. The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

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#32. Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

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#33. Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?

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#34. I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

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#35. Sure, I'd love to help you out ... now, which way did you come in?

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#36. I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

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#37. 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.

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#38. When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

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#39. Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.

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#40. 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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#41. 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

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

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#43. No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

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