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George Jean Nathan [1882-1958] American

Rank: 101
Editor, Critic

George Jean Nathan was an American drama critic and magazine editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator.

Love, Anger, Art, Beauty, Friendship, Funny, Good, Great, Humor, Imagination, Men, Music, Patriotism, Politics, Sad

Quote	Tags	Rank
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.	Good	101
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.	Anger	102
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.	Art, Great, Music	103
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.	Love	104
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.		105
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.	Beauty, Men, Sad	106
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.		107
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.		108
I drink to make other people interesting.		109
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.	Patriotism	110
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.	Funny	111
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.		112
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.	Friendship	113
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.		114
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	115
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.		116
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.		117
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.		118
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.		119
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.	Humor	120
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.		121
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.	Politics	122
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.		123
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.	Imagination	124
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.		125
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.		126
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.		201
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.		202
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.		203
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.		204

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