61 Quotes by Elaine Dundy

…the fabric of his shirt was woven of some Martian stuff; even his very skin was of another weave.

It was one of those nights when the air is blood-temperature and it's impossible to tell where you leave off and it begins.

We had dry martinis; great wing-shaped glasses of perfumed fire, tangy as the early morning air.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing I've been fleeing all my life. and (here it comes): a librarian is just not that easy to become...Apparently there's a whole filing system and annotating system and stamping system and God knows what you have to learn before you qualify.

[W]hat 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.

But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself.

To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

As a matter of fact I'd had my hair dyed a marvelous shade of pale red so popular with Parisian tarts that season.