George Jean Nathan Quotes

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

“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”

“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.”

“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”

“I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”

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

“The great problems of the world - social, political, economic and theological - do not concern me in the slightest…If all the Armenians were to be killed tomorrow and if half of Russia were to starve to death the day after, it would not matter to me in the least. What concerns me alone is myself and the interests of a few close friends.”

“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.”

“I drink to make other people interesting. ”

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