“ An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. George Jean Nathan
“ To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. 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… George Jean Nathan
“ Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. 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. 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
