Speak for yourself, John: the life of J...
A source page for quotes linked to John Mason Brown.
“To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.”
“He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.”
“What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.”
“Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.”
“Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.”
“Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.”
“I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.”
“The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.”
“The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.”