Patrick Dennis Auntie Mame Quotes

#1. I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.

Ed Gamble

#2. People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

Roy Bennett

#3. I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Joseph Addison

#4. Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death. Auntie Mame

Patrick Dennis

#5. Even if, in one or other of them, I had a particular word or words in mind, I would not tell anyone, because the same word means different things to different people. Only the songs say the same thing, arouse the same feeling, in everyone - a feeling that can't be expressed in words.

Felix Mendelssohn

#6. Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

Mark Helprin

#7. She thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

Patrick Dennis

#8. Morning, I soon discovered, was one o'clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.

Patrick Dennis

#9. Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

Howard Metzenbaum

#10. Why darling, I'm your Auntie Mame!

Patrick Dennis

#11. She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.

Patrick Dennis

#12. At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the idea of them was incomprehensible to her, and she could not imagine having conceived such a being. Useless to waste any more time and breath on this unnatural little girl.

Nancy Mitford