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I drink to make other people interesting.
— George Jean Nathan
Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.
— George Jean Nathan
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
— George Jean Nathan
Art is the sex of the imagination.
— George Jean Nathan
Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.
— George Jean Nathan
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
— 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
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
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
— George Jean Nathan
Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.
— George Jean Nathan
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
— George Jean Nathan
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
— George Jean Nathan
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
— George Jean Nathan
Drama - what literature does at night.
— George Jean Nathan
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
— George Jean Nathan
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
— 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 as ample reward.
— George Jean Nathan
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
— George Jean Nathan
A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.
— George Jean Nathan
The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.
— George Jean Nathan
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.
— George Jean Nathan
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
— George Jean Nathan
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
— George Jean Nathan
All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.
— George Jean Nathan
Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
— George Jean Nathan
Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.
— George Jean Nathan
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
— George Jean Nathan
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
— George Jean Nathan
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.
— George Jean Nathan
Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
— George Jean Nathan
The triumph of sugar over diabetes.
— George Jean Nathan
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
— 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
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
— George Jean Nathan
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
— George Jean Nathan
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
— George Jean Nathan
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
— George Jean Nathan
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
— George Jean Nathan
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
— George Jean Nathan
I drink so the others become interesting.
— George Jean Nathan
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
— 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
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
— George Jean Nathan
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
— George Jean Nathan
Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.
— 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
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
— George Jean Nathan
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
— George Jean Nathan