Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. – Robert Staughton Lynd
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer. – Robert Staughton Lynd
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. – Robert Staughton Lynd
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. – Robert Staughton Lynd
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. – Robert Staughton Lynd
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering. – Robert Staughton Lynd
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. – Robert Staughton Lynd
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. – Robert Staughton Lynd
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. – Robert Staughton Lynd
