John Mason Brown quotes
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
Among the Round Tablers at the Algonquin Hotel, Sherwood stood out like a grandfather's clock. The tick of his talk was measured, his words seeming to be spaced by minutes, but when he chimed he struck gaily.
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
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.
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
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.
So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
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.
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
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.
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.