George Jean NathanThinkers

Admiration is often felt for a woman not for what she says, but for what she listens to.

Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art is the sex of the imagination. Thus, to speak about morals in art is the same as speaking of the legislature in sex.

The Broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die while fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

Comedy's real test is whether you laugh at a comedian before he opens his mouth.

Common sense is all for the bourgeoisie while nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy (and the worries of the world are for the common people).

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art, illuminating the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

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

Cynicism is only penetrating and valid when it is the cynicism that is born of success..

Drinking is often done to make other people more interesting.

An Election is a process whereby bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Faith is tied to disappointment such that it tends to be the case that faith in God increases as one's faith in the world decreases.