It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
- George Jean Nathan
Myself, Goes, Yes, Contradict
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan
Music, Art, Mad, Loveliness
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.
- George Jean Nathan
Down, Him, Pretty Girl, Wink
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
- George Jean Nathan
Wife, Sweetheart, His, Compromise
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
- George Jean Nathan
Path, Forest, Through, Thick
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
- George Jean Nathan
Love, Always, Feels, Love Is
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.
- George Jean Nathan
People, Privilege, Sense, Bourgeoisie
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
- George Jean Nathan
Art, Sex, Morals, Legislature
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
- George Jean Nathan
Pretty Girl, Pretty, May, Burial
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan
Good, Bad, Elected, Officials
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
- George Jean Nathan
Reward, Constant, Spent, Obituary
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
- George Jean Nathan
Mouth, Comedian, His, Opens
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
- George Jean Nathan
Love, Emotion, Few, Love Is
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
- George Jean Nathan
Actor, Hole, Like, Playwright
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan
Love, Friendship, Infinitely, Demands
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
- George Jean Nathan
Woman, She, Listens, Admires
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
- George Jean Nathan
Beauty, Sad, Wise, Idiots
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
- George Jean Nathan
Woman, Understand, Mood, Encounters
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
- George Jean Nathan
Funny, Get, Believes, Fellow
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.
- George Jean Nathan
Rest, Which, Otherwise, Windows
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan
Patriotism, Above, Estate, Arbitrary
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
- George Jean Nathan
Success, Cynicism, Valid, Penetrating
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.
- George Jean Nathan
Love, Woman, Tenderly, Company
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
- George Jean Nathan
Politics, Important, Trivial, Diversion
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
- George Jean Nathan
Woman, More, Passes, Transparency
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- George Jean Nathan
Anger, Think, His, Fists
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.
- George Jean Nathan
Humor, Sense Of Humor, Grow, Cosmetics
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
- George Jean Nathan
Art, Value, Own, Criticism
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
- George Jean Nathan
Think, Salt, Any, Foremost
I drink to make other people interesting.
- George Jean Nathan
Interesting, Other, Make, Drink
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