Alan Jay Lerner's Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Men die but an idea does not.

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

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

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

I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.