Quotes from Alan Jay Lerner

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Oozing charm from every pore, He oiled his way around the floor.

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

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?

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.

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.