Top 15 George Jean Nathan Quotes



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

 

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

 

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 the spring, love, and dogs.

 

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man

 

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

 

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

 

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.

 

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

 

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

 

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

 

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.

 

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

 

 

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