Lucille Kallen Quotes

• My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family.

  Lucille Kallen

  Brother, Father, Pride

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• A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

  Lucille Kallen

  Pain, Home, Men

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• Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

  Lucille Kallen

  Sweat, Muse, Unemployed

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• A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

  Lucille Kallen

  Women, Long, Want

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• Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

  Lucille Kallen

  Satisfaction, Week, Good Week

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• My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

  Lucille Kallen

  Marriage, Husband, Independent

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• Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

  Lucille Kallen

  Military, Two, Phrases

  Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”

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• Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

  Lucille Kallen

  Truth, People, Laughing

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• Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

  Lucille Kallen

  Order, Behavior, Decent

  Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”

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• People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style.

  Lucille Kallen

  Character, People, Style

  Lucille Kallen (1980). “C.B. Greenfield: the Tanglewood murder”, Simon & Schuster

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• [Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.

  Lucille Kallen

  Law, Justice, Nine

  Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”

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• Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?

  Lucille Kallen

  Weekend, Men, Kitchen

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• Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

  Lucille Kallen

  Christmas, Doe, Good Things

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• Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

  Lucille Kallen

  Charm

  Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”

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• There are some men who possess a quality which goes way beyond romantic or even sexual appeal, a quality which literally enslaves. It has very little to do with looks and nothing at all to do with youth, because there are some quite mature and unathletic specimens who have it. It's an expression in the eyes, an aura of being in control, and responsible, or something easy and powerful in the stance, or who knows.

  Lucille Kallen

  Powerful, Eye, Men

  Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”

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• A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

  Lucille Kallen

  Music, Running, Piano

  Lucille Kallen (1979). “Introducing C. B. Greenfield”, Crown Pub

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• I read it plain on his face, an implacable determination to get at the truth. C.B. Greenfield had mounted his mental charger, and he had a second horse waiting for me.

  Lucille Kallen

  Horse, Determination, Truth

  Lucille Kallen (1983). “C.B. Greenfield: no lady in the house”, Ballantine Books

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• I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

  Lucille Kallen

  Science, Brain, Mind

  Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”

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• No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

  Lucille Kallen

  Use, World, Mass

  Lucille Kallen (1980). “C.B. Greenfield: the Tanglewood murder”, Simon & Schuster

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• Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

  Lucille Kallen

  Loner, Female, Thorough

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