Best George Jean Nathan Quotes
- 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. Cosmetics
- Love demands infinitely less than friendship. Demand
- Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. Beauty
- A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. Admire
- Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. Dog
- A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. Compromise
- No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. Anger
- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. Arbitrary
- Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired. Encounters
- To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. Art
- Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. Appraising
- A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as… Ambition
- An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. Actor
- Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. Become Important
- An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. Believe
- The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. Comedian
- 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… Altogether
- It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. Contradict
- I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost. Any
- It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. Achievement
- So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater. Burial
- 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
- 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… All
- Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up… Based
- I drink to make other people interesting. Drink