John Mason Brown

Quotes by John Mason Brown

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Drama critic and author · American

American drama critic and author

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Popular Quotes

“He talks at the drop of a pause.”

“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.”

“So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.”

“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.”

“To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.”

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“The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.”
— John Mason Brown
writing

“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.”
— John Mason Brown
women

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
— John Mason Brown
Purpose True

“The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.”
— John Mason Brown
Better More Seen

“No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.”
— John Mason Brown
Good Heaven Here

“To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.”
— John Mason Brown
critics criticism

“So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.”
— John Mason Brown
present

“He talks at the drop of a pause.”
— John Mason Brown
vices foibles

“I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.”
— John Mason Brown
worthy victories

“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.”
— John Mason Brown
writers writing

“I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.”
— John Mason Brown
worthy victories

“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.”
— John Mason Brown
writers writing