Quotes by Heywood Broun

“Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.”

“The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.”

“He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.”

“As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.”

“With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak."What will you do if I surrender?" he asked."Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon."And if I don't surrender?""I'll eat...”

“Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is it an epithet, do you think?"Gawaine could do no more than nod."Why, of course," exclaimed the dra...”

“Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse, "but after all, life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on...”

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

“I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.”

“Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”

“The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.”

“The swaggering underemphasis of New England.”

“Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons.”

“The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.”

“Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly they don't have to sew buttons.”

“The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.”

“In some respects, the life of a censor is more exhilarating than that of an emperor. The best the emperor can do is snip off the heads of men and women, who are mere mortals. The censor can decapit...”

“For a person in rugged health who is not particularly dressed up and does not want to write a letter or read the newspaper, we can imagine few diversions more enjoyable than to have a child turned ...”

“The average editor cannot escape feeling that telling a writer to do something is almost the same thing as performing it himself.”

“The body of the Unknown Soldier has come home, but his spirit will wander with that of his brothers. There will be no rest for his soul until the great democracy of death has been translated into t...”