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
home heaven causes
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
happiness ourselves purpose
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
becoming casts charm glow
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
goes laid prophetic
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
joy bigger-better immersion
What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.
eye pride self
So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.
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.
blood land civil-war
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
men trials opinion
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
way martyrdom dies
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
asks
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
dream men thinking
What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
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.
eye gum television
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.