George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathanwas an American drama critic and editor. He worked closely with H.L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth14 February 1882
CountryUnited States of America
successful fighting criticism
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
men want drink
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
new-york sky crowds
All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.
men often-is yoke
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
interesting alcohol drink
I drink so the others become interesting.
sarcastic triumph sugar
The triumph of sugar over diabetes.
stupidity platforms profundity
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
wise artist mind
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.
men thinking salt
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
drama night theatre
Drama - what literature does at night.
flower theatre doe
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.
memories self-esteem philosophy
It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.
marriage wedding jobs
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.