Quotes by George Jean Nathan

George Jean Nathan

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.

Broken

Heart

Love

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

Actors

Natural Instinct

Successful

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.

Stress

Success

Work

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

Admire

Men

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

Comfort

May

Men

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.

Love

Men

Witty

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

Firsts

Wife

Women

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.

Dog

Spring

Stars

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

Friends

Money

Reading

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

Crowds

New York

Sky

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Achievement

Actors

Admire

Adventure

Age

Air

Alcohol

Anniversary

Art

Artist

Atheism

Beer

Believe

Book

Broken

Catching

Clothes

Comfort

Common Sense

Convincing

Cosmetics

Crazy

Criticism

Crowds

Cynicism

Darkness

Democracies Have

Dinner

Disappointment

Doe

Dog

Dollars

Done

Drama

Drink

Drinking

Encounters

Eye

Fall

Fashion

Fetch

Fighting

Firsts

Flags

Flower

Flying

Forests

Freedom

Friends

Friendship

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Quotes by George Jean Nathan

George Jean Nathan

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.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

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.

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

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

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.

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

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.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

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