George Jean Nathan Quotes - Page 3

I drink so the others become interesting.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

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

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.

Drama - what literature does at night.

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.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

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.

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.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.