Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
ALAN JAY LERNERIf you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
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England still will be here without you.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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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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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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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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We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.
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I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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Stay close to the young… and a little rubs off.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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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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