John Mason Brown Quotes

Best Quotes by John Mason Brown (Top 10)

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
John Mason Brown
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
John Mason Brown
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
John Mason Brown
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
John Mason Brown
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
John Mason Brown
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
John Mason Brown
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
John Mason Brown
The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.
John Mason Brown
So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
John Mason Brown

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.
John Mason Brown
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.
John Mason Brown
To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
John Mason Brown
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
John Mason Brown
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
John Mason Brown
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
John Mason Brown
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.
John Mason Brown
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
John Mason Brown
The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.
John Mason Brown
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
John Mason Brown
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
John Mason Brown