Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lernerwas an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth31 August 1918
CountryUnited States of America
passion joy pleasure
Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
morning church bells
I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
monday sleep night
A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
race faces smile-on-my-face
There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.
wings done my-fair-lady
I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.
england without-you stills
England still will be here without you.
women want today
You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
girl heaven littles
Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day.
winning men squares
Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?
children writing years
There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
home might sound
Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
judgement amplification youth
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
book magazines world
We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
summer winter order
The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.