George Jean Nathan was an American drama critic and editor.
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“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”
George Jean Nathan
“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”
“Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man”
“I only drink to make other people seem interesting”
“What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.”
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
“A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart”
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”
“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”