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
goes laid prophetic
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
becoming casts charm glow
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
children reason destroying
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
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.
dream men thinking
What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
work order people
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.
time waiting management
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
friendship names people
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.
curiosity propulsion jet
God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.
women light becoming
Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.
book kids home
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.