Lucille Kallen Quotes

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

I read it plain on his face, an implacable determination to get at the truth. C.B. Greenfield had mounted his mental charger, and he had a second horse waiting for me.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.