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Brooks Atkinson

b: Melrose, Massachusetts, Nov 28, 1894

d: Huntsville, Alabama, Jan 13, 1984

American. Critic. One of the supporters of Eugene O'Neill, reviewed over 3,000 opening night performances; won Pulitzer, 1947.

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

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

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newpapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

The power to tax is the power to rule.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

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

Those who rule us are like you and me. It is a frightening situation.