George Jean Nathan Men Quotations

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

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.

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

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

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.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

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.

Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.