82 Quotes by George Jean Nathan

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

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

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

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

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

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.

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.

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.