Alan Jay Lerner Quotes & Sayings

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work! — Alan Jay Lerner

You write a hit the same way you write a flop. — Alan Jay Lerner

Men die but an idea does not. — Alan Jay Lerner

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women. — Alan Jay Lerner

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot. — Alan Jay Lerner

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights. — Alan Jay Lerner

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that? — Alan Jay Lerner

Why can't a woman be more like a man? — Alan Jay Lerner

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air. — Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. — Alan Jay Lerner

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry. — Alan Jay Lerner

The commitment of marriage can frequently arouse some rather peculiar behaviour in men and women alike, but the bizarre notion that one can change the character of one's mate seems to occur more often to women than to men. — Alan Jay Lerner

On a clear day, rise and look around you and you'll see who you are on a clear day, how it will astound you that the glow of your being outshines every star! You feel part of every mountain, sea and shore. You can hear from far and near a world you've never heard before And on that clear day you can see forever more — Alan Jay Lerner

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria. — Alan Jay Lerner

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French. — Alan Jay Lerner

Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! — Alan Jay Lerner

The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it. — Alan Jay Lerner

Thank heaven for little girls!
For little girls get bigger every day. — Alan Jay Lerner

I could have danced all night! — Alan Jay Lerner

We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well. — Alan Jay Lerner

England still will be here without you. — Alan Jay Lerner

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot. — Alan Jay Lerner

I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!. — Alan Jay Lerner

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? — Alan Jay Lerner

There's a smile on my face for the whole human race. — Alan Jay Lerner

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness. — Alan Jay Lerner

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him. — Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before. — Alan Jay Lerner

We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book. — Alan Jay Lerner

Stay close to the young ... and a little rubs off. — Alan Jay Lerner

For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter. — Alan Jay Lerner

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has. — Alan Jay Lerner

Could anyone among us have an inkling or a clue
What magic feats or wizardry and voodoo you can do?
And who would ever guess what powers you possess
And who would not be stunned to see you prove
There's more to us than surgeons can remove
So much more than we ever knew
So much more were we born to do
Should you draw back the curtain, this I am certain
You'll be impressed with you — Alan Jay Lerner