Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

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.

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

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

Men die but an idea does not.

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

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

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.

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

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

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

I could have danced all night!

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

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

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

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.

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?

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

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

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

England still will be here without you.

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

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

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