Russell Lynes Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Russell Lynes:

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

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

Russell Lynes

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

Russell Lynes

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.

Russell Lynes

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Russell Lynes

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.

Russell Lynes

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Russell Lynes

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.

Russell Lynes

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.

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Russell Lynes

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

Russell Lynes

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.

Russell Lynes