Russell Lynes Quotes

Russell Lynes — American Critic born on December 02, 1910, died on September 14, 1991

Russell Lynes was an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

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