George Jean Nathan quotes

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (George Jean Nathan)
I only drink to make other people seem interesting. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. View quote
George Jean Nathan
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. View quote
George Jean Nathan
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. View quote
George Jean Nathan
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. View quote
George Jean Nathan
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. View quote
George Jean Nathan
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. (George Jean Nathan)
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. View quote
George Jean Nathan
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. View quote
George Jean Nathan
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. View quote
George Jean Nathan
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. View quote
George Jean Nathan
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. View quote
George Jean Nathan
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost. (George Jean Nathan)
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. View quote
George Jean Nathan
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright. View quote
George Jean Nathan
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. View quote
George Jean Nathan