Russell Lynes
Russell Lynes
Russell Lyneswas an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth2 December 1910
CountryUnited States of America
names gone today
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.
sympathy real heart
Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.
teaching men self
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.
taste guarded estimation
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
ragtime century 20th-century
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
children successful parenting
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
wise stupid people
Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.
sarcastic wise insults-you
I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.
wise insult humans
Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?
wise ugly insult
Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?
art bourgeoisie social
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.
games play secret
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.
wise cool-status agree
I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
men wife definitions
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.