82 Quotes by George Jean Nathan

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

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

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

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

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.

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.