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Jean Kerr Quotes

1922–2003 United States

Jean Kerr (July 10, 1922 – January 5, 2003) was an American author and playwright.

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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?

The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

I will read anything rather than work.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself—like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Misattributed In Finishing Touches (1973)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Kerr (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.