If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
ALAN JAY LERNERWhy can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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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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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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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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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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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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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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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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Stay close to the young… and a little rubs off.
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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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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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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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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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