Robert Wilson Lynd Quotations

Robert Wilson Lynd was a British writer, an urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist. He was born and educated in Belfast, and settled in Hampstead in London, as a contributor to many publications.

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

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

I am a confirmed believer in blessings in disguise. I prefer them undisguised when I myself happen to be the person blessed; in fact, I can scarcely recognize a blessing in disguise except when it is bestowed upon someone else.