George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

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

George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.