Anita Loos

Fate keeps on happening.

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

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

I’ve never known a Philadelphian who wasn’t a downright ‘character’; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

Memory is more indelible than ink.