Russell Lynes

Joseph Russell Lynes, Jr. (December 2, 1910 – September 14, 1991) was an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine.

Quotes

• The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
  • Reader's Digest, December 1954

• A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.
  • "The Part-Time Lady," A Surfeit of Honey (1957)