Quotes from Cole Porter

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs... Love for sale.

Night and day, you are the one.

The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .

All the world loves a clown.

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?

Let's Do It; Let's Fall in Love.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.

Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect.

Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

Night and day you are the one,Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

Love for sale,Appetizing young love for sale.Love that's fresh and still unspoiled,Love that's only slightly soiled,Love for sale.

I get no kick from champagne.Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,So tell me why should it be trueThat I get a kick out of you.