Quotes from Robert Wilson Lynd

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

Most human beings are quite likable if you do not see too much of them.

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

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.

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

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

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.