Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
