Quotes by Brooks Atkinson

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

#Brooks Atkinson

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

#Brooks Atkinson

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

#Brooks Atkinson

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has...

#Brooks Atkinson

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and...

#Brooks Atkinson

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the...

#Brooks Atkinson

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn...

#Brooks Atkinson

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is...

#Brooks Atkinson

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they...

#Brooks Atkinson

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the...

#Evil

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for...

#New Year

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape...

#Bureaucracy