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George Jean Nathan
8 quotes
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Undeveloped Notes," The Smart Set (August 1922)
“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Materia Critica (1924)
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From his book House of Satan (1926)
“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian.”
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Test of a Comedian", The American Mercury (September 1929)
“I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Testament of a Critic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931), p. 16
“The great problems of the world - social, political, economic and theological - do not concern me in the slightest...If all the Armenians were to be killed tomorrow and if half of Russia were to starve to death the day after, it would not matter to me in the least. What concerns me alone is myself and the interests of a few close friends.”
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Living Authors, H. W. Wilson (1932)
“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.”
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source