Russell Lynes

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

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

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

If you cant ignore an insult top it if you cant top it laugh it off and if you cant laugh it off its probably deserved.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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.

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.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

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.

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.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

A truly appreciative child will break lose spoil or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

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.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

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