Quotes from Elaine Dundy

this must be part of some pathetic fallacy, whereby if you fall in love with one man, all men instantly become desirable, whether they actually are or not.

As you may know, the Diplomatic Service does not pay very well even in its highest positions. Oh, we shouldn't starve.

It's amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

He hated so many people I hardly know anyone any more

To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on.

The more I see of the world the more I realize how much we are haunted by our childhood dreams.

She must be the apple of her father's eye for she was a plain girl with nothing in her face or figure to indicate she would not remain so. As for rebellion I couldn't detect the slightest twitch of it in her.

I read poetry. My head filled with rhythms and rhymes. In my crystalline awareness I would often go and lie down under one of the giant oaks in the vast tranquillity of the nearby Arlington Cemetery, where I would watch the squirrels flying from branch to branch in the trees. I felt so serene. I felt so well. My soul grew happy in that cemetery. I wanted to stay all day.

To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit.

It was nice to have him back. It made me realize that he was probably the only genuinely nice person in the whole group. Amongst us all he stands out like a good deed in a bad world, as they say.

We went to a movie and he kissed me for the first time. We kissed right through it... "Now let's kiss somewhere else," said Max.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

It seems to me they're not really happy unless they're at the same time on public display and at their worst.

I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

I've never wanted to meet anyone I've been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

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