Quotes from Alan Jay Lerner


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


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


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


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


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


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.


Men die but an idea does not.


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