It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. — Robert Wilson Lynd Golf Copy Share Image
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human… — Robert Wilson Lynd Ancient Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among… — Robert Wilson Lynd Born Copy Share Image
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. — Robert Wilson Lynd Customs Copy Share Image
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a… — Robert Wilson Lynd Brief moments Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline… — Robert Wilson Lynd Abbreviations Copy Share Image
The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is… — Robert Wilson Lynd Art Copy Share Image
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. — Robert Wilson Lynd Beauty Copy Share Image
The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was… — Robert Wilson Lynd Broken Copy Share Image
W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it… — Robert Wilson Lynd Certain Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all… — Robert Wilson Lynd Affair Copy Share Image
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them. — Robert Wilson Lynd Human beings Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the… — Robert Wilson Lynd Appearance Copy Share Image
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave… — Robert Wilson Lynd Landscape Copy Share Image
The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind… — Robert Wilson Lynd Book Copy Share Image
When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that… — Robert Wilson Lynd Art Copy Share Image
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street. — Robert Wilson Lynd Hats Copy Share Image
We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it. — Robert Wilson Lynd Effort Copy Share Image
The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand… — Robert Wilson Lynd Beauty Copy Share Image
The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places… — Robert Wilson Lynd Adventurous Copy Share Image
Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European… — Robert Wilson Lynd Allies Copy Share Image
Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers;… — Robert Wilson Lynd Absurd Copy Share Image
We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy… — Robert Wilson Lynd Age Copy Share Image
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them. — Robert Wilson Lynd Human Copy Share Image
