Top 30 Quotes by George Jean Nathan

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

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

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

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

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

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.

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.