For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.
ALAN JAY LERNERBack home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
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Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?
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A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
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On a clear day, how it will astound you That the glow of your feelings outshines every star.
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.
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Men die but an idea does not.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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