Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you… — Russell Lynes Assumption Copy Share Image
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. — Russell Lynes Idleness Copy Share Image
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today? — Russell Lynes Hard work Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the… — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name… — Russell Lynes Architecture Copy Share Image
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and… — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes Accepting Copy Share Image
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more… — Russell Lynes Goal Copy Share Image
The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat… — Russell Lynes Areas Copy Share Image
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. — Russell Lynes Books Copy Share Image
Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing. — Russell Lynes Brain Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. — Russell Lynes Cripple Copy Share Image
Sure, I'd love to help you out...now, which way did you come in? — Russell Lynes Helping Copy Share Image
There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers,… — Russell Lynes Bears Copy Share Image
Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly. — Russell Lynes Clutter Copy Share Image
The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
“Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.” — Russell Lynes Books Copy Share Image
