George Jean Nathan Quotes

I drink so the others become interesting.

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

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

Drama - what literature does at night.

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

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.

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

I drink to make other people interesting.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Art is the sex of the imagination.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

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