Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from George Jean Nathan

George Jean Nathan US drama critic & editor (1882 - 1958)


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.

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- I drink to make other people seem more interesting.

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.

George Jean Nathan -
- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan -
- I only drink to make other people seem interesting.

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

George Jean Nathan -
- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.