Quotes by George Jean Nathan

About George Jean Nathan:

George Jean Nathan was an American drama critic and 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.
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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.

George Jean Nathan

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

George Jean Nathan

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

George Jean Nathan

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

George Jean Nathan

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.

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 spring, love, and dogs.

George Jean Nathan

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

George Jean Nathan

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

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

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

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

George Jean Nathan

Author Bio

  • NameGeorge Jean Nathan
  • DescriptionAmerican drama critic and magazine editor
  • BornFebruary 14, 1882
  • DiedApril 8, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Journalist