Words matter. These are the best George Jean Nathan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than man’s transparency.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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 are for the common people.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn’t understand, he wants to know if she’s tired.
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
A man’s wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
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.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
