George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathanwas an American drama critic and editor. He worked closely with H.L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth14 February 1882
CountryUnited States of America
new-york sky crowds
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.
love heart broken
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.
men often-is yoke
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.
memories self-esteem philosophy
It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.
sex heaven mud
Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.
art sex imagination
Art is the sex of the imagination.
flower theatre doe
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.
drama night theatre
Drama - what literature does at night.
men illusion convincing
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 thinking salt
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
men want drink
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
memories done should
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.
success achievement cynicism
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
girl long literature
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.