Quotes by Robert Wilson Lynd

Robert Wilson Lynd

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

Boys

Love Is

Poet

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

Animal

Cat

Divine

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

Keys

Light

Moments

Dostoevsky’s visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.

Men

People

Police

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Inspirational

Motivational

Nature

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Golf

Sports

World

It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.

Generations

Littles

Romance

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

Customs

Expenses

Praise

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

Playing Games

Silly

Sports

Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.

Animal

Doe

Men

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Animal

Art

Beautiful

Bird

Body

Book

Boys

Cat

Character

Children

Christian

Christmas

Contentment

Country

Crazy

Customs

Divine

Doe

Dog

Dream

Effort

Expenses

Eye

Fall

Fighting

Flower

Forget

Generations

Golf

Good Man

Hands

Has Beens

Hats

Humans

Ignorance

Impart

Inquisitive

Inspirational

Keys

League

Life

Light

Likeable

Literature

Littles

Love Is

Lying

May

Mean

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Quotes by Robert Wilson Lynd

Robert Wilson Lynd

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

Dostoevsky’s visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.

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