George Jean Nathan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.”