“It seems to me they're not really happy unless they're at the same time on public display and at their worst.” — Elaine Dundy Happy Copy Share Image
I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. — Elaine Dundy Inspirational Copy Share Image
Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it. — Elaine Dundy Cynicism Copy Share Image
... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. — Elaine Dundy Banquets Copy Share Image
I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up. — Elaine Dundy Champagne Copy Share Image
“No matter what you do you've got to try to do it well. Otherwise, it's unbearable.” — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“Silk--that's what I want rubbing against me. I feel so woolen all the time.” — Elaine Dundy Silk Copy Share Image
“I just want to eat about a hundred million oysters and two tons of caviar and go swimming naked in champagne…” — Elaine Dundy Swimming Naked Copy Share Image
What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. — Elaine Dundy Memory Copy Share Image
I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always… — Elaine Dundy Benefits Copy Share Image
“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 Half baked Copy Share Image
“Frequently, walking down the streets in Paris alone, I've suddenly come upon myself in a store window grinning foolishly away at the… — Elaine Dundy Paris Copy Share Image
The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were… — Elaine Dundy Character Copy Share Image
“[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after… — Elaine Dundy Actor Copy Share Image
“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 Gossip Copy Share Image
A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable. — Elaine Dundy Bunch Copy Share Image
“Besides, I hated him but I loved him too. Yes. I know all about that sort of thing. Christ, I should, I'd… — Elaine Dundy Hate Copy Share Image
“I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be.… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“I imagined there must be hundreds and thousands and millions of people quiet in the dark out there, waiting with baited breath… — Elaine Dundy Red light Copy Share Image
[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the… — Elaine Dundy Character Copy Share Image
“I have never known anyone with less money and less visible means of getting hold of it. He had slept around everywhere,… — Elaine Dundy Money Copy Share Image
“If the recently graduated college alumna can't turn her trained brain to some intelligent awareness of our responsibilities in World Affairs, we're… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“I soon realized that one of the most important things to find while working in theater was someone to giggle with. To… — Elaine Dundy Flirt Copy Share Image
“If I wanted so much to go-- if everything I wanted in the whole world was on the other side of that… — Elaine Dundy Despair Copy Share Image
“Hated France when I first got over here. Got on the train at Le Havre, and looked out of the window and… — Elaine Dundy Fitness Copy Share Image
“What did I feel? Appalled. Astonished. Bewildered. I thought I was doing so well. I thought I was charming the hell out… — Elaine Dundy God knows Copy Share Image
“I love you. If you hadn't existed I would have had to invent you.” — Elaine Dundy Existed Copy Share Image
The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever! — Elaine Dundy Forever Copy Share Image
“I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I… — Elaine Dundy Time Copy Share Image
“I had no technique for dealing with him: only an overpowering, unnerving, irrational, chemical desire to be with him.” — Elaine Dundy Crush Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who… — Elaine Dundy Confuse Copy Share Image
“He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl’s account o… — Elaine Dundy Kissed Copy Share Image
“Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and… — Elaine Dundy Destiny Copy Share Image
“I felt my attention wandering off. It generally does at the phrase "mere child.” — Elaine Dundy Children Copy Share Image
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. — Elaine Dundy Acting Copy Share Image
I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people. — Elaine Dundy Meet Copy Share Image
“I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed… — Elaine Dundy Glamour Copy Share Image