"George Jean Nathan" was an United States/American drama critic and Magazine editor/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.

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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

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

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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

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No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched.

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

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Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

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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.

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

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Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.

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I only drink to make other people seem interesting.

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