Elaine Dundy Quotes

What Is Always Overlooked Is That Although The Poor Want To Be Rich, It Does Not Follow That They Either Like The Rich Or That They In Any Way Want To Emulate Their Characters Which, In Fact, They Despise. Both The Poor And The Rich Have Always Found Precisely The Same Grounds On Which To Complain About Each Other. Each Feels The Other Has No Manners, Is Disloyal, Corrupt, Insensitive - And Has Never Put In An Honest Day's Work In Its Life.

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.

I Hate Champagne More Than Anything In The World Next To Seven-up.

The Vehemence Of My Moral Indignation Surprised Me. Was I Beginning To Have Standards And Principles, And, Oh Dear, Scruples? What Were They, And What Would I Do With Them, And How Much Were They Going To Get In My Way?

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.

The World Is Wide, Wide, Wide, And I Am Young, Young, Young, And We’re All Going To Live Forever!

... I Was Merely A Disinterested Spectator At The Banquet Of Life.

I’ve Never Wanted To Meet Anyone I’ve Been Introduced To. I Want To Meet All The Other People.

Oh, Teddy, Darling, Thank You, Thank You, For Restoring My Cynicism. I Was Too Young To Lose It.

What’s The Use Of Remembering Anything? If It Was Unpleasant It Was Unpleasant And If It Was Pleasant It’s Over.

It's Difficult To Explain, But I Just Somehow Feel That I Never Really *have* Lived; That I Never Really Will Live--exist Or Whatever--in The Sense That Other People Do. It Drives Me Crazy. I Was Terribly Aware Of It All Those Nights Waiting For You In The Ritz Bar Looking Around At What Seemed To Be Real Grown-up Lives. I Just Find Everybody Else's Life Surrounded By Plate Glass. I Mean I'd Like To Break Through It Just Once And Actually Touch One.