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George Jean Nathan Quotes

1882–1958 United States

George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) was an American drama critic and editor. He worked closely with H.L.

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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Materia Critica (1924)

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

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian.

...that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power, and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Jean Nathan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.