Flapper Quotes

#1. They were married by a lesbian justice of the peace while their friends played a guitar-feedback-heavy version of the "Wedding March." The bride wore a white-fringed flapper dress and black spiked boots. The groom wore leather.

Gayle Forman

#2. I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.

Berenice Bejo

#3. The world of the flapper - live free, wild and young - that energy is intoxicating. It's nice to inject that into the more controlled 'Downton' way of living.

Lily James

#4. If she's a flapper," mused the sergeant, wiping Passionate Rouge lipstick off his blameless mouth, "then I'm all for 'em, and I don't care what Mum says.

Kerry Greenwood

#5. The flapper has charm, good looks, good clothes, intellect and a healthy point of view.

Colleen Moore

#6. ( ... )"Flapper" - the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.

Joshua Zeitz

#7. A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

Colleen Moore

#8. Hot off the presses, today's headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways," Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. "Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider - he is a bit of a killjoy.

Libba Bray

#9. In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Anna Godbersen

#10. Never miss a party ... good for the nerves
like celery.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

Andy Rooney

#12. Katie, I want you. I can't make it poetry. I can't make it sound anything other than crude, because it is. I want you in my bed. I want you under me, holding me. I want to bury my cock so deep inside you.

Tessa Dare

#13. People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident.

Josh Lanyon

#14. Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

Anthony Burgess

#15. To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. The boy shot Wild Bill's horse at dusk, while Bill was off in the bushes to relieve himself

Pete Dexter

#17. In the South," he said, "they call everything a Coke. So if you say you want a Coke, you then have to specify if you want a Pepsi Coke, or a Coke Coke." "What

Anne Frasier

#18. People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now.

Kathleen Glasgow

#19. I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. Flying in space is a privilege, whether it's the first time or the fourth time.

Scott Kelly

#21. Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#22. I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#23. It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. We are from a line of khans, brother. We rule wherever we are placed.

Conn Iggulden

#25. Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

Agatha Christie

#26. You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#27. I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. Less flapping, more flying!

Silvia Hartmann

#29. She went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes:

Lewis Carroll

#30. We begin where we are.

Robert Fripp

#31. I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.

Luis Suarez