John Mason Brown

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

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

“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.”

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

“He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.”

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

“Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.”

“No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.”

“The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.”

“How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!”