George Jean Nathan Quotes
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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I drink to make other people interesting.
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
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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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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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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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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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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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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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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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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
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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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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
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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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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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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.