Inspirational Quotes by John Mason Brown (American Drama Critic)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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: Adversity, Reality, Difficulties

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

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

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

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