If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
ALAN JAY LERNERYou see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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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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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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Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
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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 write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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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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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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By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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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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England still will be here without you.
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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