List of George Jean Nathan Quotes

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.

So Long As There Is One Pretty Girl Left On The Stage, The Professional Undertakers May Hold Up Their Burial Of The Theater.

It May Be Said That Artist And Censor Differ In This Wise: That The First Is A Decent Mind In An Indecent Body And That The Second Is An Indecent Mind In A Decent Body.

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.

The Triumph Of Sugar Over Diabetes.

An Abstainer Is The Sort Of Man You Wouldn't Want To Drink With Even If He Did.

An Actor Without A Playwright Is Like A Hole Without A Doughnut.

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.

Drama - What Literature Does At Night.

Great Drama Is The Souvenir Of The Adventure Of A Master Among The Pieces Of His Own Soul.

A Poet, Any Real Poet, Is Simply An Alchemist Who Transmutes His Cynicism Regarding Human Beings Into An Optimism Regarding The Moon, The Stars, The Heavens, And The Flowers, To Say Nothing Of Spring, Love, And Dogs.

Sex Touches The Heavens Only When It Simultaneously Touches The Gutter And The Mud.