George Jean Nathan Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  George Jean Nathan

  Atheism, Forests, Sound

  George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.5, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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

  George Jean Nathan

  Music, Art, Mad

  George Jean Nathan, Arnold Leslie Lazarus (1990). “A George Jean Nathan Reader”, p.79, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

• An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

  George Jean Nathan

  Believe, Optimism, Literature

• Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Darkness, Criticism

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.4, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

• Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

  George Jean Nathan

  People, Common Sense, Worry

  George Jean Nathan (1960). “The magic mirror: selected writings on the theatre”

• It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

  George Jean Nathan

  Goes On, Literature, Now And Then

• Drama - what literature does at night.

  George Jean Nathan

  Drama, Night, Theatre

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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

  George Jean Nathan

  Tired, Men, Encounters

  George Jean Nathan (1925). “The American Mercury”

• Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Criticism, Literature

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.3, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

• 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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Girl, Running, Fall

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

• An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

  George Jean Nathan

  Actors, Literature, Holes

  George Jean Nathan (1970). “Encyclopedia of the Theatre”, Associated University Press

• So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

  George Jean Nathan

  Girl, Long, Literature

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