Anita Loos Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

I don’t think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it’s gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.

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.

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

One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I’ve been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can’t I view it with anything but amusement?

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

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.