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I drink to make other people interesting.

George Jean Nathan

I drink to make other people interesting.

Tags: drink, drinking, drinkers

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

George Jean Nathan

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

Tags: funny, dogs, poodles, women

About Author
George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) 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 is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

George Jean Nathan

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

Tags: love, romance

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

George Jean Nathan

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

Tags: looking, way, optimist

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

George Jean Nathan

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

Tags: acting, theatre

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

George Jean Nathan

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Tags: success

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

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

Tags: politics

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 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.

Tags: love, man, woman, company

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

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.

Tags: humor, men, women, grow

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

George Jean Nathan

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

Tags: good

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 spr...

George Jean Nathan

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 spr...

Tags: poet, poetry, poets, writer, writers

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Tags: art, imagination

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Tags: anger, positive, man, think, fists

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.

George Jean Nathan

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.

Tags: men, girl, fall, know

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

George Jean Nathan

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

Tags: patriotism, real estate, principles

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

George Jean Nathan

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Tags: friendship, friends, love, than, demands

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Tags: beauty, men, sad, wise

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

George Jean Nathan

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Tags: art

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

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.

Tags: art

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.

George Jean Nathan

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.

Tags: failures, mistakes