George Jean Nathan

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

I only drink to make other people seem interesting.

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

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.

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

I drink to make other people seem more interesting.

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

- George Jean Nathan