George Jean Nathan Quotes

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Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

George Jean Nathan
Sex—in actual life—touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

George Jean Nathan
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

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

George Jean Nathan
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 hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

George Jean Nathan
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

George Jean Nathan
All really great drama is a form of scandal.

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

George Jean Nathan
In the words of a friend of mine, I drink to make other people interesting.

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 put it on a platform.

George Jean Nathan
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 unseen.

George Jean Nathan
The aim of great drama is not to make men happy with themselves as they are, but with themselves as they might, yet alas cannot, be.

George Jean Nathan