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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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