Inspirational Quotes by John Mason Brown (American Drama Critic)

Inspirational Quotations by John Mason Brown (American Drama Critic)

John Mason Brown (1900–69) was an American drama critic, biographer, anthologist, lecturer and television panelist. He was a columnist for the Saturday Review.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Brown graduated from Harvard College in 1923 and wrote for Theater Arts Monthly (1924–29) and The New York Evening Post (1929–41.) After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he wrote the popular Seeing Things at Night (later Seeing Things) column for Saturday Review (1944–64.)

Brown hosted the CBS Of Men and Books program (1944–47) was a panelist and critic on The Last Word (1957–58.) His works include The Modern Theatre in Revolt (1929,) Accused as I Am (1942,) Many a Watchful Night (1944,) Seeing Things (1946,) Critic at Large (1948,) As They Appear (1952,) Morning Faces (1949,) and Dramatis Personae (1963.)

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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
Topics: Reality, Difficulties, Adversity

I am as content to die for God’s eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
—John Mason Brown

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
Topics: Danger

A critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Criticism

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Politics

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
Topics: Revolutions, Revolution, Revolutionaries

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

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Happiness, Goals, Aspirations

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

So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: The Present

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
Topics: Friends and Friendship

What a man is is the basis of what he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Man

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Time Management, Time

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
—John Mason Brown
Topics: Charm