Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr
Jean Kerrwas an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 July 1923
CountryUnited States of America
adorable beauty deep nonsense tired
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
booth life mary matter open telephone
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
feeling hope
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
success understanding losing
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
beauty beautiful tired
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
christmas morning doors
Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.
civilized
I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.
party sleep three
You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).
mistake women making-mistakes
I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
grandmother thinking grandparent
When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.
loss leaving together
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-fried potatoes are out.
learning thinking deals
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
morning stars lying
Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning
toys cracks tough
Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!