“Los malos gobernantes son elegidos por los buenos ciudadanos que no votan.”
Fuente: Sarmiento, J. M. Mil y una frases célebres. Editorial Planet House Editorials, 2016.
George Jean Nathan dramaturgo y escritor.
“Los malos gobernantes son elegidos por los buenos ciudadanos que no votan.”
Fuente: Sarmiento, J. M. Mil y una frases célebres. Editorial Planet House Editorials, 2016.
Original: «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».
Fuente: The Theatre Book of the Year: A Record and an Interpretation. George Jean Nathan. Editorial Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Página 87.
“Ningún hombre puede pensar claramente cuando sus puños están apretados.”
Original: «No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched».
Fuente: The world of George Jean Nathan. George Jean Nathan. Editorial Knopf, 1952. Página 284.
“Lo que pasa por la intuición femenina a menudo no es más que la transparencia del hombre.”
Original: «What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than man’s transparency».
Fuente: The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes. Mammoth Books. Autor Geoff Tibballs. Editorial Hachette UK, 2012. ISBN 9781780337227. https://books.google.es/books?id=SGieBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT344&dq=What+passes+for+woman%E2%80%99s+intuition+is+often+nothing+more+than+man%E2%80%99s+transparency.&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPmaz-sfTgAhVNgxoKHWE5APoQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=What%20passes%20for%20woman%E2%80%99s%20intuition%20is%20often%20nothing%20more%20than%20man%E2%80%99s%20transparency.&f=false
“El gran arte es tan irracional como la gran música. Es una locura con su propia belleza.”
Original: «Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness».
Fuente: A George Jean Nathan Reader. Autor George Jean Nathan. Editor Arnold Leslie Lazarus. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1990. ISBN 9780838633694. Página 79. https://books.google.es/books?id=2wdm9aAwfxEC&pg=PA79&dq=Great+art+is+as+irrational+as+great+music.+It+is+mad+with+its+own+loveliness.+George+Jean+Nathan&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigmIvh0PXgAhWwAmMBHU9xDmoQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Great%20art%20is%20as%20irrational%20as%20great%20music.%20It%20is%20mad%20with%20its%20own%20loveliness.%20George%20Jean%20Nathan&f=false
“El amor es la emoción que una mujer siente siempre por un perro caniche y, a veces, por un hombre.”
Original: «Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man».
“El amor es una emoción experimentada por muchos y disfrutada por unos pocos.”
Original: «Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few».
Fuente: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations. Miner, Margaret; Rawson, Hugh. ISBN 9780195168235. p. 389. https://books.google.es/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA389&dq=Love+is+an+emotion+experienced+by+the+many+and+enjoyed+by+the+few.+George+Jean+Nathan&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizoLHXr_TgAhWIMBQKHSNABx8Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Love%20is%20an%20emotion%20experienced%20by%20the%20many%20and%20enjoyed%20by%20the%20few.%20George%20Jean%20Nathan&f=false
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”
" Undeveloped Notes http://books.google.com/books?id=xIEcAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage," The Smart Set (August 1922)
The World in Falseface http://books.google.com/books?id=7rlEAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage (1923)
“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian.”
Clinical Notes, George Jean, Nathan, January 1926, American Mercury magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=k330MmVjym8C&q="Opera+in+English+is+in+the+main+just+about+as+sensible+a+plea+as+baseball+in+Italian"&pg=PA107#v=onepage,
Fuente: Testament of a Critic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931), p. 16
Living Authors, H. W. Wilson (1932)
[Lumley, Frederick, New Trends in 20th Century Drama: A Survey Since Ibsen and Shaw, Barrie and Jenkins, 1972, London, 12, 978-0-19-519680-1]
“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”
Fuente: "Test of a Comedian", The American Mercury (September 1929)