Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
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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.
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
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.
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.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
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.
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.
It rides horses and is rare in Southern California, except in Pasadena. In Texas it trades at Neiman-Marcus.
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as "That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there."
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 only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
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.
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.
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.
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
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