Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
ALAN JAY LERNERWhy can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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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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I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
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Pull out the stopper! Let’s have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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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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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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The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
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We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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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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I could have danced all night!
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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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