I just want to eat about a hundred million oysters and two…

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

— Elaine Dundy

“I'm a real phony, one of those half-baked hot-house plants we're growing nowadays, instead of the honest-to-God two-fisted women we should be...”

— Elaine Dundy

“He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl’s account o how she…

— Elaine Dundy

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

— Elaine Dundy

“You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.”

— elaine dundy

“I have never known anyone with less money and less visible means of getting hold of it. He had slept around everywhere, from the…

— Elaine Dundy

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and…

— Elaine Dundy

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

— Elaine Dundy

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

— Elaine Dundy

“I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath for me,…

— Elaine Dundy

“What did I feel? Appalled. Astonished. Bewildered. I thought I was doing so well. I thought I was charming the hell out of him.…

— Elaine Dundy

“[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but…

— Elaine Dundy

“No matter what you do you've got to try to do it well. Otherwise, it's unbearable.”

— Elaine Dundy

“Hated France when I first got over here. Got on the train at Le Havre, and looked out of the window and thought it…

— Elaine Dundy

“I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no…

— Elaine Dundy