George Jean Nathan Quotes

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

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  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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• Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

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  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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• All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

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  Stupidity, Platforms, Raises

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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.

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  Love, Witty, Men

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I drink to make other people interesting.

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  Drinking, Book, Beer

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

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  Goes On, Literature, Now And Then

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• No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

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  Life, Wisdom, Crazy

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.21, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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

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  Believe, Optimism, Literature

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• An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

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  Actors, Literature, Holes

  George Jean Nathan (1970). “Encyclopedia of the Theatre”, Associated University Press

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

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  Eye, Men, Important

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• The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

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  Atheism, Forests, Sound

  George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.5, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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

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  Art, Criticism, Literature

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.3, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

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  Tired, Men, Encounters

  George Jean Nathan (1925). “The American Mercury”

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

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  Funny, Dog, Love Is

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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

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  Real, Patriotic, Political

  Testament of a Critic bk. 1 (1931)

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

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  Love, Anniversary, Disappointment

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

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  Friends, Money, Reading

  George Jean Nathan (1943). “Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children”

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• In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

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  Believe, Hero, Theatre

  Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan (1929). “The American Mercury”

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

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  Men, Admire

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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

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  Music, Art, Mad

  George Jean Nathan, Arnold Leslie Lazarus (1990). “A George Jean Nathan Reader”, p.79, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

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  Memories, Philosophy, Self Esteem

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• The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

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  Men, Illusion, Convincing

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• 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.

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  People, Common Sense, Worry

  George Jean Nathan (1960). “The magic mirror: selected writings on the theatre”

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• Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

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  Sex, Heaven, Gutters

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

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  Successful, Actors, Natural Instinct

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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