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George Jean Nathan Quotes
Brief author info: George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) American drama and social critic, editor, memoirist.
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
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.
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in the brewery.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Motivational Quote
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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