(20 quotes found)
“Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.”
John Mason Brown
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”
“A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.”
“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.”
“I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.”
“The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
