Russell Lynes Quotes

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

Brains aren’t everything. In fact in your case they’re nothing.

I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

I don’t know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

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

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

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

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.

I’m sorry, I’m a little busy. Can i ignore you later?

Sure, I’d love to help you out…now, which way did you come in?

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

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

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn’t have given you worse advice.

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.