Anita Loos Quotes (19 Quotes)



    Does this boat go to Europe, France?

    Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

    I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.



    Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.


    I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

    I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

    There's nothing colder than chemistry.

    That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U. S. A into a nation of hobbledehoys as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

    I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

    So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.

    It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

    Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.

    If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

    On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

    The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

    I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.


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