Jean Kerr

“'Lunch Hour' is suitable for a teenager.”

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”

“Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.”

“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 have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.”

“Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.”

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.”

“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?”

“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”