If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
ALAN JAY LERNERCoughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
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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 the English teach their children how to speak?
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You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.
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An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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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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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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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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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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