Author: Jean Kerr

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

- Jean Kerr

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

- Jean Kerr

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