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«A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
compromise, compromised, compromises, compromising, illusion, man and wife, sweetheart, sweethearts, wife
«Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
diversion, diversions, trivial
«It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
contradict, contradicted, contradicting, improve, now and then, wonderfully
«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.»
«I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
first and foremost, foremost, salt, salted
«Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
arbitrary, estate, patriotism, real estate, veneration
«So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
burial, hold up, The Professional, The Undertaker, undertakers
«An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
houseflies, housefly
«It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body»
«Love demands infinitely less than friendship.»
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