Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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Quotes by George Jean Nathan
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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 drink to make other people interesting.
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.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial 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.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
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