Alan Jay Lerner

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

Coughing in the theater is not a repiratory ailment. It is criticism.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

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

Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day. Thank heaven for little girls! They grow up in the most delightful way.

Men die but an idea does not.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.