97 Quotes by Jean Kerr

Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning.

Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.

I’m not so sure it’s so civilized to be civilized all the time.

I make mistakes; I’ll be the second to admit it.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.

I don’t want to see the uncut version of anything.

In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr’s law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word ‘Chippendales,’ they don’t necessarily think of chairs.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It’s not safe, it’s not safe at all.