Quotes by George Jean Nathan

“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”

“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the ...”

“Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man”

“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.”

“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”

“Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.”

“An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.”

“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”

“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”

“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.”

“Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.”

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”

“I drink to make other people interesting.”

“There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.”

“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.”

“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.”

“There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially but with a certain air of majesty like a great ship its flags flying full of holes.”

“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.”

“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”

“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian.”