Anita Loos famous quotes

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.
-- Anita Loos

#Style #Gowns #Sawdust

Memory is more indelible than ink.
-- Anita Loos

#Memories #Ink

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.
-- Anita Loos

#Gentleman #Brunette

Fate keeps on happening.
-- Anita Loos

#Fate

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.
-- Anita Loos

#Girl #Time #Thinking

Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
-- Anita Loos

#Sex #Men #Gentleman

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
-- Anita Loos

#Solitary #Drinkers

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

#Girl #Doe #Boards

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

#Order #Bored #Bores

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.
-- Anita Loos

#California #Climate #Hot

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

#Character #Cities #Philadelphia

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.
-- Anita Loos

#Stars #World #Normal

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

#Land #Heyday #Climate

with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.
-- Anita Loos

#Night #Cities #Differences

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.
-- Anita Loos

#Track #Sides

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

#Age #Pasta #Silhouettes

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
-- Anita Loos

#Women #Justice #Soap

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

#Girl #Thinking #Brain

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

#Pleasure

I've always loved high style in low company.
-- Anita Loos

#Style #Lows #Company

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

#Memorable #People #Planes

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

#Kissing #Hands #Forever

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
-- Anita Loos

#Art #Sex #Dirty

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

#Gentleman #Blonde #Looks

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.
-- Anita Loos

#Destiny #Thinking #Careers

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.
-- Anita Loos

#Years #America #Fake

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

#Thinking #Two #Crowds

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
-- Anita Loos

#Business #Shows #Therapy

If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
-- Anita Loos

#Sex #Kissing #Opposites

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

#Girl #Fun #Laughing

Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.
-- Anita Loos

#Dating #Gentleman #Remember

There's nothing colder than chemistry.
-- Anita Loos

#Chemistry

It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
-- Anita Loos

#Sex #Fun #Race

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
-- Anita Loos

#Money #Thinking #Long

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

#Hollywood

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.
-- Anita Loos

#Kissing #Men #Making Love

So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.
-- Anita Loos

#Girl #Thinking #Paris

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

#Running #Home #Thinking

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.
-- Anita Loos

#Men #Elk #Emotion

Does this boat go to Europe, France?
-- Anita Loos

#Travel #Europe #Tourism

Gentlemen prefer blondes.
-- Anita Loos

#Gentleman #Blonde #Classic