Anita Loos Quotes

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

Fate keeps on happening.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

I've always loved high style in low company.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.

Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.