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

Quote by George Jean Nathan

Topics: Optimism Quotes, Satisfaction Quotes

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

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

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

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

I drink to make other people interesting.

I drink to make other people interesting.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is...

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is...

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which...

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which...

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

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

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

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

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

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow...

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow...

No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched.

No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in...

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in...

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

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

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

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

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to...

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to...

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

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

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

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

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art and no...

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art and no...