Top 30 Quotes by George Jean Nathan

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

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

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

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.

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

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

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

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

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