Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by …

- John Mason Brown

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

- John Mason Brown

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

- John Mason Brown

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

- John Mason Brown

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

- John Mason Brown

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

- John Mason Brown

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

- John Mason Brown

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

- John Mason Brown

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

- John Mason Brown