Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

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• On a clear day, rise and look around you and you'll see who you are on a clear day, how it will astound you that…
• You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
• I could have danced all night!
• Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
• 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…
• 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.
• An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
• Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.
• Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
• It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
• Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
• Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
• Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
• Men die but an idea does not.
• Why can't a woman be more like a man?
• I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But…
• The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
• A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
• We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
• With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

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