Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
ALAN JAY LERNERMen die but an idea does not.
More Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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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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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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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
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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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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
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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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Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
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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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There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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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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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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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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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.
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