It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans. Robert Wilson Lynd More Quotes by Robert Wilson Lynd More Quotes From Robert Wilson Lynd 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. Robert Wilson Lynd romance generations littles The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest. Robert Wilson Lynd inquisitive has-beens This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. Robert Wilson Lynd women may world 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. Robert Wilson Lynd doe animal men It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. Robert Wilson Lynd golf sports world The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth. Robert Wilson Lynd stars christian children The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. Robert Wilson Lynd military war peace It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. Robert Wilson Lynd customs expenses praise W. B. Yeats has created, if not a new world, a new star. He is not a reporter of life as it is, to the extent that Shakespeare or Browning is. One is not quite certain that his kingdom is of the green earth. He is like a man who has seen the earth not directly but in a crystal. Robert Wilson Lynd stars men world 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. Robert Wilson Lynd police men people Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath. Robert Wilson Lynd body bird character The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness. Robert Wilson Lynd contentment league country With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children. Robert Wilson Lynd flower children fall 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. Robert Wilson Lynd moments light keys It is in games that many men discover their paradise. Robert Wilson Lynd discover paradise games men Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them. Robert Wilson Lynd human see you too-much