All George Jean Nathan Quotes
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.
George Jean Nathan
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
George Jean Nathan
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan in
Anger
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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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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan in
Patriotism
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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 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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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.
George Jean Nathan
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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.
George Jean Nathan
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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.
George Jean Nathan
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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.
George Jean Nathan in
Love
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