Alan Jay Lerner

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Men die but an idea does not.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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Why can't a woman be more like a man?
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With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!
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Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
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It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Passion
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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Collection: Judgement
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Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Children
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Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
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Collection: Home
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Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
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Collection: Shining
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The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
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Collection: Sex
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You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Women
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There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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Collection: Race
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.
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Collection: Wings
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Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Winning
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Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
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Collection: Air
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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry.
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Eye
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I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Morning
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I could have danced all night!
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Collection: Night
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The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
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Collection: Summer
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We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.
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Collection: Time
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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
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Collection: Children
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For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Daughter
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We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Book
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An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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Collection: Talking
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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Men
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Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: Children
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England still will be here without you.
- Alan Jay Lerner
Collection: England