Cole Porter Quotes (20 Quotes)

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.

A slap and a tickle Is all that the fickle Male Ever has in his head

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

I get no kick from champagne, Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why should it be true, That I get a kick out of you.

You do something to me, Something that mystifies me.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare; And the women you will wow.

All the world loves a clown.

The 1860s-era house, which has about 21 rooms, had fallen into disrepair over the years. It had been split into several apartments, and police found a methamphetamine lab in one of the apartments two years ago. The museum plans to sell fudge made with recipes from the now-closed Arnold's Candies of Peru. At his shows, Porter gave away boxes of the candy as presents.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire I don't.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.

You're the Nile, You're the Tower of Pisa, You're the smile; On the Mona Lisa.

Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

And I also thought about one of Yale's alumni, namely the urbane songwriter Cole Porter. The grandson of a gentleman farmer, ... Bulldog Bulldog (Bow, Wow, Wow).