41 Quotes by 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.

The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.

Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you...It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning...

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

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

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.

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

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.