82 Quotes by George Jean Nathan

I drink so the others become interesting.

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

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.

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.

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.

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.