John Mason Brown
John Mason Brown
John Mason Brownwas an American drama critic and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth3 July 1900
CountryUnited States of America
becoming casts charm glow
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
goes laid prophetic
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
communication want remember
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
children reason destroying
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
funny women land
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
tattoo people criticism
To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
writing mirrors vanity
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
writing winning agony
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.
kings humorous play
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
education purpose daily-life
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.
dream men thinking
What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
men trials opinion
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
education thinking sheep
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.
happiness disappointment heart
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.