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.
tattoo people criticism
To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
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.
drama past men
Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning...
cities circles people
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.
happiness ourselves purpose
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.