Famous George Jean Nathan Quotations

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"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."
by George Jean Nathan
"Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
by George Jean Nathan
"A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward."
by George Jean Nathan
"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."
by George Jean Nathan
"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."
by George Jean Nathan
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
by George Jean Nathan
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
by George Jean Nathan
"I drink to make other people seem more interesting."
by George Jean Nathan
"I only drink to make other people seem interesting."
by George Jean Nathan
"Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery."
by George Jean Nathan
"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
by George Jean Nathan
"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."
by George Jean Nathan
"Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."
by George Jean Nathan
"The triumph of sugar over diabetes."
by George Jean Nathan
"Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help."
by George Jean Nathan
"I only drink to make other people seem more interesting."
by George Jean Nathan
"I drink to make other people interesting."
by George Jean Nathan
"An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out."
by George Jean Nathan
"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote."
by George Jean Nathan
"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."
by George Jean Nathan


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