George Jean Nathan Quotes

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

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.

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 man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man

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.

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