The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
"Justin Brooks Atkinson" was an United States/American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the theater's most influential reviewer of his time."
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous critics! More Brooks Atkinson on Wikipedia.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.
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
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.
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
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.
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
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.
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