George Jean Nathan Quotes

American - Editor | February 14, 1882 - April 8, 1958

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 ample reward.

George Jean Nathan

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

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

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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.

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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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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

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

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

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

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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

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

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

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