Quotes by George Jean Nathan - Page 2

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Jobs
Marriage
Wedding
Beer
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Aristocracy
Bourgeoisie
Common
Common Sense
Nonsense
People
Privilege
Worry
Common People
Exists
Far
Worries
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Wise
Artist
Mind
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There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Air
Flags
Flying
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Equality
Friends
Money
Reading
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The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Doe
Flower
Theatre
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Art
Criticism
Darkness
Might
Unseen
Altogether
Rest
Illuminates
Otherwise
Perhaps
Vaguely
Windows
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Men
Convincing
Illusion
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Done
Memories
Should
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Girl
Running
Coal
Fall
Married
Pretty Girl
Men Know Who
Gave
Happily
Hole
Married Men
Wink
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
I Love You
Love
True Love
Men
Company
May
Reserves
Species
Witty
Feel
Love Man May
Love Man Woman
Man
True
He
Woman
Deepest
Electrified
Finds
Himself
His
Tenderly
Whose
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There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Fetch
Looks
Powerful
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Dog
Spring
Stars
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One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Men
Doe
Looks
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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.
George Jean Nathan / Critic
Memories
Philosophy
Self Esteem
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