Top 30 Quotes by George Jean Nathan

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

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.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

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.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.