Kerr, Jean quotes
1923 American Author PlaywrightMan is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Kerr, Jean
Hypocrisy
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn t permanent.
Kerr, Jean
Hope
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.
Kerr, Jean
Marriage
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.
Kerr, Jean
Poverty and The Poor
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Kerr, Jean
Averages
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
Kerr, Jean
Alcohol and Alcoholism
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.
Kerr, Jean
Airplane and Aviation
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.
Kerr, Jean
Divorce
I m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That s deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?
Kerr, Jean
Beauty
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven t grasped the situation.
Kerr, Jean
Adversity