Arlene Francis Quotes

#1. People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.

Arlene Francis

#2. Life is the best party I've ever been invited to.

Arlene Francis

#3. If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

Arlene Francis

#4. Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers ...

Arlene Francis

#5. Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

Arlene Francis

#6. Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto.

Roger E. Olson

#7. I have learnt that a good marriage is healing for the soul, something to relish. But a bad marriage is long-suffering, a thing to be endured. The only good thing about marriage is that it's perishable like human life.

Meghna Pant

#8. It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Gertrude Stein

#9. I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

Laura Mennell

#10. I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her work would be used, that is, to conceal a fraudulent scheme from federal regulators.

Viet D. Dinh

#11. Don't make promises which you can't keep!

Deyth Banger

#12. It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.

Arlene Francis

#13. Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

Arlene Francis

#14. There is nothing more boring than a bored person.

Arlene Francis

#15. Apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.

Arlene Francis

#16. It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.

Arlene Francis

#17. If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

Arlene Francis

#18. Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

Arlene Francis

#19. My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

James Green Somerville

#20. Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Arlene Francis

#21. Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.

Arlene Francis

#22. If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Jodi Picoult