John Mason Brown Quotes

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Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.

John Mason Brown
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

John Mason Brown
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.

John Mason Brown
Once I likened dramatic criticism to an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. My contention was that such an attempt was at once the glory and the challenge of the job. My ardent hope is that some of the iridescence of those soap bubbles is caught, however imperfectly, in this passing record now past.

John Mason Brown
It is in the hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.

John Mason Brown
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

John Mason Brown
Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra—and sank.

John Mason Brown
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.

John Mason Brown
To many people…dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

John Mason Brown
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.

John Mason Brown
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

John Mason Brown