An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . .… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
