John Mason Brown Quotes

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

He talks at the drop of a pause.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win hold or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.