Quotes by George Jean Nathan

"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."

"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."

"It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on."

"Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired."

"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."

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

"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 admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to."

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

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

"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."

"I drink to make other people interesting."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."