Thanks for the hint,” I laughed. “And thanks for the invitation too. Only I don’t know if I can make it – ” I stalled automatically, marveling at the strength of my reflex – the never-appear-too-eager one, for of course nothing would have stopped me.

— Elaine Dundy

Elaine Dundy Quotes

He tried to kiss me. One of the few things that had impressed me in college was a Southern girl’s account o how she avoided being kissed on the doorstep of her house once by wearing a flower in her hair and sticking it in her mouth when she said good night. Only I had no flower.

— Elaine Dundy

Thanks for the hint,” I laughed. “And thanks for the invitation too. Only I don’t know if I can make it – ” I stalled automatically, marveling at the strength of my reflex – the never-appear-too-eager one, for of course nothing would have stopped me.

— Elaine Dundy

As a matter of fact I’d had my hair dyed a marvelous shade of pale red so popular with Parisian tarts that season.

— Elaine Dundy

If the recently graduated college alumna can’t turn her trained brain to some intelligent awareness of our responsibilities in World Affairs, we’re going to foul up our leadership like England did, as sure as God made little green apples.

— Elaine Dundy

But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn’t as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven’s sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself.

— Elaine Dundy

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

— Elaine Dundy

That’s my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

— Elaine Dundy

To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.

— Elaine Dundy
About Stories

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

— Elaine Dundy

Acting doesn’t bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

— Elaine Dundy

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

— Elaine Dundy

It’s amazing how right you can be about a person you don’t know; it’s only the people you do know who confuse you.

— Elaine Dundy

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

— Elaine Dundy

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

— Elaine Dundy

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

— Elaine Dundy

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

— Elaine Dundy

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

— Elaine Dundy

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

— Elaine Dundy

I don’t always understand other people’s motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don’t mind. I don’t always understand other people’s motives.

— Elaine Dundy

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

— Elaine Dundy
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