Jean Kerr

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents."

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

"I will read anything rather than work."

"If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fri…"