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?"

"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."

"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure."

"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."

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

"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."