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
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.
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.
men intuition instinct
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
wise men idiot
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
men admire
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
tired men encounters
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
men looks way
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
men theatre remember
Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.
men may comfort
A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
eye men important
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
love witty men
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.
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.