Famous George Jean Nathan Quotes
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”
" Undeveloped Notes http://books.google.com/books?id=xIEcAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage," The Smart Set (August 1922) <br class="br"> The World in Falseface http://books.google.com/books?id=7rlEAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage (1923)
“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”
Materia Critica (1924)
Source: Testament of a Critic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931), p. 16
George Jean Nathan Quotes
“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian.”
Clinical Notes, George Jean, Nathan, January 1926, American Mercury magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=k330MmVjym8C&q=&quot;Opera+in+English+is+in+the+main+just+about+as+sensible+a+plea+as+baseball+in+Italian&quot;&pg=PA107#v=onepage,
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
From his book House of Satan
Living Authors, H. W. Wilson (1932)
[Lumley, Frederick, New Trends in 20th Century Drama: A Survey Since Ibsen and Shaw, Barrie and Jenkins, 1972, London, 12, 978-0-19-519680-1]
“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”
Source: "Test of a Comedian", The American Mercury (September 1929)
