78 Quotes by Anita Loos

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

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

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.

Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.