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George Jean Nathan
An optimist is...
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
To speak of...
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the...
The test of...
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
It is also...
It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes...
Criticism is the...
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise...
He writes his...
He writes his plays for the ages -- the ages between five and twelve.
Source: In...
No man can...
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
Source: In 1,911 Best Things...
Great art is...
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
It is only...
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
The path of...
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
Source: In...
A man admires...
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
Source:...
Great art is...
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Patriotism is often...
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Hollywood is ten...
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin...
So long as...
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the...
Love demands infinitely...
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
I only drink...
I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
Source: Quoted beneath his...
Musicals are to...
Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.
Source: In...
Women, as they...
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of...
A life spent...
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...