Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Robert Wilson Lynd (Irish Essayist, Critic)

Robert Wilson Lynd (1879–1949) was an Irish essayist and critic. An Irish nationalist, he is remembered for the urbane sequence of essays he wrote for more than forty years.

Born in Belfast, Lynd was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and later Queen’s College, Belfast, where he studied classics. He settled in Hampstead in London (1901) and was from 1912 literary editor of the Daily News (later the News Chronicle.) He also contributed to the New Statesman (1913–45,) signing himself ‘Y Y.’

Lynd’s intimate, witty essays, of which he wrote numerous volumes, are on a wide variety of topics. He wrote for the Sinn Féin movement under the name Riobard O Floinn (he later parted company with the party.) He also edited some works of the Irish republican and socialist leader James Connolly.

Lynd’s publications include Irish and English (1908,) The Art of Letters (1920,) The Pleasures of Ignorance (1921,) The Blue Lion (1923,) and In Defence of Pink (1939.) His popular account of 18th-century literary life is Dr. Johnson and Company (1927.)

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No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Conflict

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering.
Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Suffering

Coleridge says that to bait a mouse-trap is as much as to say to the mouse, ‘Come and have a piece of cheese,’ and then, when it accepts the invitation, to do it to death is a betrayal of the laws of hospitality.
Robert Wilson Lynd

There are two sorts of curiosity—the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Curiosity

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.
Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Birds

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Candor, Friends, Friendship

Most human beings are quite likable if you don’t see too much of them.
Robert Wilson Lynd

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Robert Wilson Lynd
Topics: Knowledge

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