Nathan, George Jean

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

"The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth."

"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people." - Autobiography of an Attitude

"It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body." - The Autobiography of an Attitude