Джордж Джин Нейтан цитаты

„Любовь требует бесконечно меньше, чем дружба.“

„С возрастом женщины всё больше полагаются на косметику, а мужчины — на свое чувство юмора.“

„То, что мы называем интуицией женщины, зачастую объясняется просто прозрачностью намерений мужчины.“

„Плохие власти выбираются хорошими гражданами, которые не голосуют.“

„Так называемая женская интуиция на самом деле — мужское простодушие.“

“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.”