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George Jean Nathan was an American literary and drama critic, renowned for his profound insights into dramatic and literary works. Born on March 14, 1882, and passing away on April 8, 1958, Nathan grew up in New York and attended Columbia University. His criticism has had a profound impact on American theater in the early 20th century.

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“One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.”

Men Way Looks Doe Happens Turns Particular Theater Entertaining Imaginative Playwright

Book:The Critic and the Drama

Source: The Critic and the Drama

“The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.”

Men Grows Illusion Notion Convincing

Book:The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

“An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.”

Ifs Men Want Drink

Author:George Jean Nathan

“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.”

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

“What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.”

Men Instinct Intuition Transparency

Author:George Jean Nathan

“Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.”

Men Humor Grows Women Rely Sense Of Humor Cosmetics

Book:The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

“Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.”

Men Wise Idiot Merry

Author:George Jean Nathan

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

Book:The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

“Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.”

Men Feels Sometimes Funny Love Is Emotion Dog Poodles Poodle Dogs

Book:The world of George Jean Nathan

Source: The world of George Jean Nathan

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

Men Firsts Women Wife Illusion Compromise Sweetheart

Book:The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”

Thinking Men Life Wisdom Crazy Hero Diversity Anger Social Justice Angry Positive Attitude Frustration Fists Anger Management No Anger Anger And Frustration Anger And Pain Anger Frustration

Book:The World in Falseface

Source: The World in Falseface

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

Ifs Knows Men Want Literature Tired Mood Encounters

Book:The American Mercury

Source: The American Mercury

“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.”

Men Success Work Fool Ambition Labor Stress Regard Constant Rewards Obituary

Book:The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.”

Men Important Eye Politics Politician Succeed Corny Diversion

Author:George Jean Nathan

“I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.”

Thinking Men Firsts Salt

Book:The world of George Jean Nathan

Source: The world of 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.”

Knows Men Firsts Running Romance Fall Girl Literature Married Holes Coal Falling Down Pretty Girl Married Man Happily Married Winking

Book:The world of George Jean Nathan

Source: The world of George Jean Nathan

“Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.”

Men Should Jobs Marriage Theory Taste Brands Beer Wedding Wedding Marriage Wedding Speech Marriage Speech Breweries Father Of The Bride

Book:The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

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

Men Feels May Said Company Comfort Drowsy

Author:George Jean Nathan

“The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.”

Men Greater Slave Whim Often Is Bachelors Yoke

Book:The bachelor life

Source: The bachelor life

“Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.”

Men Remember Forget Theater Theatre

Book:The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary

About the Author

Born: March 14, 1882
Died: April 8, 1958
Known for: Critic
Quotes: 66

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