Jean Kerr Quotes

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• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

  Jean Kerr

  Success, Understanding, Losing

  Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) introduction. Cf. Rudyard Kipling 126:13

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• The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

  Jean Kerr

  Children, Real, Humorous

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

  Jean Kerr

  Beauty, Beautiful, Tired

  The Snake Has All the Lines (1958)

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• I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

  Jean Kerr

  Mistake, Women, Making Mistakes

  Jean Kerr (1960). “The Snake Has All the Lines”

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• Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

  Jean Kerr

  Creating, People, Talent

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.76, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

  Jean Kerr

  Christmas, Morning, Doors

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Life, Marriage

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

  Jean Kerr

  Thinking, Atheism, Unhappy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

  Jean Kerr

  Coffee, Hands, Espresso

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• The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Average

  Please Don't Eat the Daisies

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• Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

  Jean Kerr

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.

  Jean Kerr

  Lost, Situation, Seriousness

  "Please Don't Eat the Daisies". Book by Jean Kerr, 1957.

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• I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

  Jean Kerr

  Civilized

  Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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• I will read anything rather than work.

  Jean Kerr

  Knowledge

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

  Jean Kerr

  Drinking, Numbers, People

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• People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.

  Jean Kerr

  People, Irritated, Dear

  Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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• Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Wish, Cleaning

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• Children are different - mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

  Jean Kerr

  Children, Nuts, Different

  "Please Don't Eat the Daisies". Book by Jean Kerr, 1957.

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• Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

  Jean Kerr

  Mother, Silly, Intelligent

  Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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• To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

  Jean Kerr

  Baby, Party, Alive

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

  Jean Kerr

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

  Jean Kerr

  Fun, Writing, Acceptance

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• A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

  Jean Kerr

  Jobs, Divorce, Friendly

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.33, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

  Jean Kerr

  Twenties, Lines, Pleasure

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

  Jean Kerr

  Class, People, Said

  Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday

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