Quotes by 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)

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. (George Jean Nathan)

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. (George Jean Nathan)

A mans wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. (George Jean Nathan)

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. (George Jean Nathan)

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. (George Jean Nathan)

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (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)

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

I drink to make other people interesting. (George Jean Nathan)