Anita Loos Quotes

Fate keeps on happening.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks` Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.

Pleasure that isn`t paid for is as insipid as everything else that`s free.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

There`s nothing colder than chemistry.

(commenting on the young deaths of many of the Mack Sennett bathing beauties, in "A Girl Like I") ...beauty combined with lack of brains is extremely deleterious to the health.

I can never take for granted the euphoria produced by a cup of coffee. I`m grateful every day that it isn`t banned as a drug, that I don`t have to buy it from a pusher, that its cost is minimal and there`s no need to increase the intake. I can count on its stimulation 365 mornings every year. And thanks to the magic in a cup of coffee, I`m able to plunge into a whole day`s cheerful thinking.

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.

(My brother) Clifford would painstakingly correct anyone who mispronounced our name. I never cared what people called me. So I became Miss "Loose," while my brother was always Dr. "Lohse."

(on Hollywood in the 1920s) To place in the limelight a great number of people who ordinarily would be chambermaids and chauffeurs, and give them unlimited power and wealth, is bound to produce lively results.

The people I`m furious with are the women`s liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That`s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

Memory is more indelible than ink.

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

[From her 1977 book "Cast of Thousands"[ I can never take for granted the euphoria produced by a cup of coffee. I`m grateful every day that it isn`t banned as a drug, that I don`t have to buy it from a pusher, that its cost is minimal and there`s no need to increase the intake. I can count on its stimulation 365 mornings every year. And thanks to the magic in a cup of coffee, I`m able to plunge into a whole day`s cheerful thinking.