George Jean Nathan

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

— George Jean Nathan

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

— George Jean Nathan

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries…

— George Jean Nathan

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

— George Jean Nathan

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

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome…

— George Jean Nathan

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

— George Jean Nathan

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his…

— George Jean Nathan

I drink to make other people interesting.

— George Jean Nathan

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

— George Jean Nathan

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

— George Jean Nathan

The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist .…

— George Jean Nathan

Drama - what literature does at night.

— George Jean Nathan

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

— George Jean Nathan

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one…

— George Jean Nathan

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

— George Jean Nathan

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

— George Jean Nathan

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and…

— George Jean Nathan

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

— George Jean Nathan

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

— George Jean Nathan

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

— George Jean Nathan

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

— George Jean Nathan

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

— George Jean Nathan

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves…

— George Jean Nathan

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

— George Jean Nathan