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

George Jean Nathan

I drink to make other people interesting.

George Jean Nathan

People

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

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

George Jean Nathan

Time

Now

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

George Jean Nathan

Success

Cynicism

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

George Jean Nathan

Friendship

Love

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

George Jean Nathan

Love

Emotion

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

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan

Man

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

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

George Jean Nathan

Skepticism

Sound

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

George Jean Nathan

Man

Woman