Frasi di George Jean Nathan

“Il test per un vero comico è se tu ridi di lui prima che apra bocca.”

“I cattivi rappresentanti sono eletti dai bravi cittadini che non votano.”

“La politica è il diversivo di piccoli uomini che, quando hanno successo, diventano grandi agli occhi di altri piccoli uomini.”

“Conosco molti uomini sposati, ne conosco persino alcuni felicemente sposati, ma non ne conosco uno solo che non cadrebbe in un tombino per correre dietro alla prima ragazza carina che gli fa l'occhiolino.”

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

“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”

“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.”

“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”

“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian.”

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”

“I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”

“The great problems of the world - social, political, economic and theological - do not concern me in the slightest…If all the Armenians were to be killed tomorrow and if half of Russia were to starve to death the day after, it would not matter to me in the least. What concerns me alone is myself and the interests of a few close friends.”

“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.”

“I drink to make other people interesting. ”

“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”