I have yet to find a man worth his salt... by George Jean Nathan | We Heart Quotes

First Man Drama playwright Theatre

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

- George Jean Nathan

Other quotes by George Jean Nathan

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.

- George Jean Nathan

Man

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

- George Jean Nathan

Value Art

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

- George Jean Nathan

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

- George Jean Nathan

Sex Art

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

- George Jean Nathan

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.

- George Jean Nathan

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