Top 30 Quotes by George Jean Nathan

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.