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 Quote

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

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 Quote

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

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 Quote

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

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.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
- George Jean Nathan Quote

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
- George Jean Nathan Quote