George Jean Nathan quotes - page 2

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. (George Jean Nathan)
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. View quote
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater. View quote
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. View quote
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired. View quote
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. View quote
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Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney. View quote
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Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner. View quote
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian. View quote
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I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. View quote
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The great problems of the world - social, political, economic and theological - do not concern me in the slightest...If all the Armenians were to be killed tomorrow and if half of Russia were to starve to death the day after, it would not matter to me in the least. What concerns me alone is myself and the interests of a few close friends. (George Jean Nathan)
He writes his plays for the ages -- the ages between five and twelve. View quote
George Jean Nathan