[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

- Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

- Robert Staughton Lynd

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

- Robert Staughton Lynd

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice …

- Robert Staughton Lynd

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

- Robert Staughton Lynd

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

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

- 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

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 b…

- Robert Staughton Lynd