Loos Quotes & Sayings

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art. — Adolf Loos

Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again. — Anita Loos

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life. — Anita Loos

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. — Adolf Loos

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber. — Anita Loos

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable. — Adolf Loos

I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical. — Anita Loos

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint. — Anita Loos

So Dorothy said we might was well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats which were made of yellow shammy skin with pink pearl buttons. Because Dorothy said, 'Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all the time. — Anita Loos

In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world. — Anita Loos

I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that I would be great in the movies if he would write me a part that only had three expressions, Joy, Sorrow, and Indigestion. — Anita Loos

December 1931 was drawing to a close and Hollywood was aglow with Christmas spirit, undaunted by sizzling sunshine, palm trees, and the dry encircling hills that would never feel the kiss of snow. But the "Know-how" that would transform the Chaplin studio in the frozen Chilkoot Pass could easily achieve a white Christmas. In Wilson's Rolls-Royce convertible, we drove past Christmas trees heavy with fake snow. An entire estate on Fairfax Avenue had been draped in cotton batting; carolers straight out of Dickens were at its gate, perspiring under mufflers and greatcoats. The street signs on Hollywood Boulevard had been changed to Santa Claus Lane. They drooped with heavy glass icicles. A parade was led by a band blaring out "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," followed by Santa driving a sleigh. But Hollywood granted Santa the extra dimension of a Sweetheart and seated beside him was Clara Bow (or was it Mabel Normand?) — Anita Loos

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament. — Adolf Loos

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was. — Rebecca Loos

Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen. — Anita Loos

Dave said, "Tarts' wardrobe?" "Loos." Dave said with sort of admirationosity in his voice, "Outstanding" midnight — Louise Rennison

I've always loved high style in low company. — Anita Loos

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it. — Anita Loos

It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race. — Anita Loos

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. — Anita Loos

So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine. — Anita Loos

From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST. — Anita Loos

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home. — Anita Loos

I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivated person, or the argument which covers itself with the words: "But if the ornament is beautiful! ... " To me, and to all the cultivated people, ornament does not increase the pleasures of life. If I want to eat a piece of gingerbread I will choose one that is completely plain and not a piece which represents a baby in arms of a horserider, a piece which is covered over and over with decoration. The man of the fifteenth century would not understand me. But modern people will. The supporter of ornament believes that the urge for simplicity is equivalent to self-denial. No, dear professor from the College of Applied Arts, I am not denying myself! To me, it tastes better this way. — Adolf Loos

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk. — Anita Loos

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way. — Adolf Loos

One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement? — Anita Loos

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man. — Anita Loos

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. — Adolf Loos

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think. — Anita Loos

Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes. — Anita Loos

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame. — Rebecca Loos

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever. — Anita Loos

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. — Rebecca Loos

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. — Anita Loos

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock. — Anita Loos

I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's. — Anita Loos

Perhaps Anita Loos had been right when she wrote that family life was only fit for those who could stand it. — Christina Bartolomeo

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. — Adolf Loos

Does this boat go to Europe, France? — Anita Loos

Fate keeps happening. — Anita Loos

A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ... — Anita Loos

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? — Anita Loos

I did not know what my future was going to hold. — Rebecca Loos

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth. — Adolf Loos

Gentlemen prefer blondes ... but gentlemen marry brunettes. — Anita Loos

Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen. — Anita Loos

I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career. — Anita Loos

I was born in the theatre. My father was a small time impresario on the West Coast and I was acting from the age of 7, but I started to write when I was 12 and by the time I was 14 I was making more money than I was acting. — Anita Loos

If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality. — Adolf Loos

I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing. — Anita Loos

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort. — Adolf Loos

Supply and demand regulate architectural form. — Adolf Loos

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. — Anita Loos

He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. — Matthew Arnold

I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat. — Anita Loos

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever — Anita Loos

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself. — Rebecca Loos

In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own. — Anita Loos

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd. — Anita Loos

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. — Adolf Loos

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth! — Anita Loos

I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute. — Rebecca Loos

I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory. — Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. — Anita Loos

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail. — Anita Loos

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht. — Anita Loos

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. — Adolf Loos

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. — Adolf Loos

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry. — Anita Loos

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!. — Rebecca Loos

Every period had its style: why was it that our period was the only one to be denied a style? By "style" was meant ornament. I said, "weep not. Behold! What makes our period so important is that it is incapable of producing new ornament. We have out-grown ornament, we have struggled through to a state without ornament. Behold, the time is at hand, fulfilment awaits us. Soon the streets of the cities will glow like white walls! Like Zion, the Holy City, the capital of heaven. It is then that fulfilment will have come. — Adolf Loos

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. — Adolf Loos

If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on. — Anita Loos

Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed. — Anita Loos

All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her. — Adolf Loos

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating. — Anita Loos

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket. — Anita Loos

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. — Adolf Loos

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder. — Adolf Loos

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it suits them (not me!), and it's quite natural (and I approve) when they bring the old pictures and mementos they have come to love into a new interior, irrespective of whether they are good taste or bad. — Adolf Loos

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable. — Adolf Loos

the development of culture is concurrent with the removal of ornaments from objects of daily use — Adolf Loos

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. — Walt Whitman

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength. — Adolf Loos

Memory is more indelible than ink. — Anita Loos

To fish someone out of the men's loos. — Jojo Moyes

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. — Rebecca Loos

The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality. — Adolf Loos

You can say what you want about the Germans being full of "kunst", but what they are really full of is delicatessen. — Anita Loos

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time. — Anita Loos

I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I've been in Norway for ten months now and I have loved every minute of it. — Rebecca Loos

There's nothing colder than chemistry. — Anita Loos

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach. — Anita Loos

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier. — Rebecca Loos