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"46 George Jean Nathan Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 14 February 1882. Died: 8 April 1958 | Critic | Editor |

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Love Emotion Experienced
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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.

Man reserves Deepest love Company
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

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

Officials Elected Good citizen
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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

Man Love Woman Comfort
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What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than man’s transparency.

What passes Intuition Transparency
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Contradict myself Improve wonderfully
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I drink to make other people interesting.

Drink People interesting
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In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

The theatre Believe Woman Ladies
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Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
Love Emotion Feels Man
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

An optimist Fellow Believe Housefly
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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Test Comedian Laugh Opens
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Man Think Fist Clenched
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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.

Common sense Privilege World
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Great art Music Loveliness
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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

Life Spent Labor Wasted
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It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Artist Wise Mind Indecent body
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Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art Sex Imagination
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Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Marriage Theory Man discovers Taste
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

An actor Playwright Hole
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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.

Women Grow older Cosmetics Men
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

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

Have yet Man Direction Think
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Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

Great drama Souvenir Master
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism Appraising Own value
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Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

Like everybody Seem Catching colds
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beauty Idiots Wise men
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Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
Impersonal criticism Fight Marriage Successful
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The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

Dramatic critic Prejudice Believe Human life
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The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Notion Man grows Illusions True
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There is no legitimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

Legitimate actor Powerful Movies
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A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

Ready way Friend Lend Money
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There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Distinguished Failure Trivially Flag
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The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
Bachelors Freedom Freer Greater slave
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A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

Broken heart Monument Love Fulfillment
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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

Sweetest memory Have done Bitterest
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

A poet Alchemist Transmutes Regarding human
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Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

Men Theartre Women Remember
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Wife Compromise Illusion Sweetheart
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Man Woman Mood Understand
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
Pretty girl Stage Professional Undertakers
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Cynicism Success Penetrating Valid
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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.

Many married Men Happily Fall down
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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.

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

Politics Diversion Trivial men Important
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Speak Morals Art Legislature
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George Jean Nathan Quotes & Sayings