In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies… — 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
Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner. — 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
