Elaine Dundy Quotes

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

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

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

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

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

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

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

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 understand other people's motives.

To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

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