Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

#1. A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

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#2. England still will be here without you.

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#3. You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

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#4. 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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#5. Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

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#6. The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

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#7. 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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#8. Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!

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#9. Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

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#10. Stay close to the young ... and a little rubs off.

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#11. I could have danced all night!

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#12. An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

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#13. 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. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.

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#14. Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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#15. Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; 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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#16. For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.

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#17. Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

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#18. 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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#19. With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

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#20. Thank heaven for little girls!
For little girls get bigger every day.

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#21. You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

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#22. Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.

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#23. Why can't a woman be more like a man?

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#24. Men die but an idea does not.

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#25. There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

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#26. 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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#27. The commitment of marriage can frequently arouse some rather peculiar behaviour in men and women alike, but the bizarre notion that one can change the character of one's mate seems to occur more often to women than to men.

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#28. There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

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#29. The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.

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#30. I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

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#31. I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

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