Джордж Джин Нейтан цитаты

„Любовь требует бесконечно меньше, чем дружба.“

—  Джордж Джин Нейтан

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

—  Джордж Джин Нейтан

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

—  Джордж Джин Нейтан

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

—  Джордж Джин Нейтан

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

—  Джордж Джин Нейтан

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

—  George Jean Nathan

" Undeveloped Notes http://books.google.com/books?id=xIEcAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage," The Smart Set (August 1922)
The World in Falseface http://books.google.com/books?id=7rlEAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage (1923)

„Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.“

—  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.“

—  George Jean Nathan

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

—  George Jean Nathan

Materia Critica (1924)

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

—  George Jean Nathan

Clinical Notes, George Jean, Nathan, January 1926, American Mercury magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=k330MmVjym8C&q="Opera+in+English+is+in+the+main+just+about+as+sensible+a+plea+as+baseball+in+Italian"&pg=PA107#v=onepage,

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

—  George Jean Nathan

From his book House of Satan

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

—  George Jean Nathan

Testament of a Critic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931), p. 16

„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.“

—  George Jean Nathan

Living Authors, H. W. Wilson (1932)

„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.“

—  George Jean Nathan

[Lumley, Frederick, New Trends in 20th Century Drama: A Survey Since Ibsen and Shaw, Barrie and Jenkins, 1972, London, 12, 978-0-19-519680-1]

„I drink to make other people interesting. “

—  George Jean Nathan

„Love demands infinitely less than friendship.“

—  George Jean Nathan