Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Quotes

• A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

  Leo Robin

  Friendship, Girl, Kissing

  "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (song) (1949) See Advertising Slogans 39; Loos 2

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• Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girl, Men

  "Fictional character: Lorelei Lee". "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", www.imdb.com. July 1, 1953.

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• Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.

  Don Herold

  Gentleman

  Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

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• A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Kissing, Hands, Forever

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• I like a man who can run faster than I can.

  Jane Russell

  Running, Men, Faster

  "Fictional character: Dorothy Shaw". "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", www.imdb.com. 1953.

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• I've always loved high style in low company.

  Anita Loos

  Style, Sawdust, Gowns

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

  Anita Loos

  Gentleman, Blonde, Looks

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• It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crowds, Mental Health, Middle

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• Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

  Anita Loos

  Gentleman, Brunette

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• Say what you want about the deaf.

  Jimmy Carr

  Nihilism, Want, Deaf

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.128, Penguin

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• A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Thinking, Brain

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) ch. 1

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

  Anita Loos

  Kissing, Hands, Forever

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• Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Fun, Laughing

  'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1925) ch. 4

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• If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.

  Barbara Eden

  Gentleman, Blonde, Ifs

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

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• I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Gentlemen prefer blondes.

  Anita Loos

  Gentleman, Blonde, Classic

  Title of book (1925)

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