Stay close to the young… and a little rubs off.
ALAN JAY LERNERAn Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother.
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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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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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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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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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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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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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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? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.
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On a clear day, on a clear day, you can see forever, and ever, and ever more.
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England still will be here without you.
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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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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The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
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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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A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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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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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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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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I could have danced all night!
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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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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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