78 Quotes by Anita Loos

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can’t write scenes that come to life.

I’ve always loved high style in low company.

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?

I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.

His mother is having treatments by Dr. Froyd... it is quite hard for Dr. Froyd, because she cannot seem to remember which is a dream and which really happened to her. So she tells him everything, and he has to use his judgement. I mean when she tells him that a very very handsome young gentleman tried to flirt with her on Fifth Avenue, he uses his judgment.

You can say what you want about the Germans being full of “kunst”, but what they are really full of is delicatessen.