George Jean Nathan Quotes
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
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I drink to make other people interesting.
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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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.
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
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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.
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
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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.
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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.
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Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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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.
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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.