Absurd Quote by Robert Wilson Lynd

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder,…

— Robert Wilson Lynd