Jackie Kennedy Quotes

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Pearls are always appropriate.

In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Love of books is the best of all.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

I am a woman above everything else.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.