Quotations by:
Broun, Heywood
There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American journalist, author
“A New Preface to an Old Story”, Broun’s Nutmeg (19 Aug 1939)
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, “I can do no other.”
Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American journalist, author
“Emma’s Homecoming,” It Seems to Me: 1925-1935 (1935)
(Source)
A censor is a man who has read about Joshua and forgotten about Canute. The censor believes that he can hold back the mighty traffic of life with a tin whistle and a raised right hand. For, after all, it is life with which he quarrels.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American journalist, author
“Sport for Art’s Sake,” Vanity Fair (Sep 1921)
(Source)
Reprinted in Pieces of Hate, and Other Enthusiasms (1922).
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian.
Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American journalist, author
(Attributed)
(Source)
Quoted in Lin Yutang, The Wisdom of China and India (1942).
Repartee is what you wish you’d said.
Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American journalist, author
(Attributed)
In Robert Drennan, ed., The Algonquin Wits, "Heywood Broun" (1968).
Any reasonable system of taxation should be based on the slogan of “Soak the Rich.”
Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American journalist, author
(Attributed)
The only real argument for marriage is that it remains the best method for getting acquainted.
Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun (1888–1939) American journalist, author
New York World (23 Oct 1926)
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.