An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

- George Jean Nathan

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

- George Jean Nathan

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

- 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 i…

- 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 ha…

- George Jean Nathan

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

- George Jean Nathan

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 t…

- George Jean Nathan

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

- George Jean Nathan

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the …

- George Jean Nathan