An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did. George Jean Nathan More Quotes by George Jean Nathan More Quotes From George Jean Nathan Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner. George Jean Nathan dinner theater wine A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort. George Jean Nathan comfort may men 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 criticism darkness art 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 important eye men The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. George Jean Nathan humor real funny Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney. George Jean Nathan dollars hollywood skins The triumph of sugar over diabetes. George Jean Nathan triumph sugar sarcastic All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform. George Jean Nathan raises platforms stupidity 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 stress work success 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 girl running fall 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. George Jean Nathan stars dog spring Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember. George Jean Nathan theatre remember men A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. George Jean Nathan women wife firsts Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud. George Jean Nathan gutters heaven sex One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright. George Jean Nathan doe men looks 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. George Jean Nathan flags flying air 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. George Jean Nathan friends money reading 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. George Jean Nathan done should memories Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. George Jean Nathan dog love-is funny A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. George Jean Nathan admire men
