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Jean Kerr Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american playwright Jean Kerr on topics like people, hope, situation

  • Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

    — Jean Kerr on hope
    29
  • 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.

    — Jean Kerr on clean
    7
  • I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets.

    It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

    — Jean Kerr on flight
    5
  • The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

    — Jean Kerr on identity
    4
  • Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

    — Jean Kerr on alcoholalcoholism
    4
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  • The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

    — Jean Kerr on begin
    1
  • Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

    — Jean Kerr on bad
    1
  • 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.

    — Jean Kerr on divorce
    1
  • If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

    — Jean Kerr on adversity
    1
  • I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.

    That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

    — Jean Kerr on beauty
    1
  • If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

    — Jean Kerr on adversity
    0
  • You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

    — Jean Kerr on poverty
    0
  • About Jean Kerr

    Name Jean Kerr
    Quotes 21 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Playwright
    Birthday October 16
    About Jean Kerr was an American author and playwright, best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary. She was married to drama critic Walter Kerr and was the mother of six children.
    Top topics people, hope, situation, feeling, person
  • Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical.

    He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

    — Jean Kerr on hypocrisy
    0
  • 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.

    — Jean Kerr on marriage
    0
  • Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

    — Jean Kerr on feeling
    0
  • A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

    — Jean Kerr on anymore
    0
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  • When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs.

    — Jean Kerr on chairs
    0
  • Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

    — Jean Kerr on baby
    0
  • I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.

    That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

    — Jean Kerr on beauty
    0
  • One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

    — Jean Kerr on assumption
    0
  • A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

    — Jean Kerr on clean
    0
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