George Jean Nathan

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65 Quotes

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

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.

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

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

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.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

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.

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.

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

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