Encounters Quote by 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 of the…

— 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 are women.

— 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 obituary notice…

— 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 early illusions…

— 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