Cole Porter Quotes

I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?

Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Let's Do It; Let's Fall in Love.

Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now,
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.

Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control ...

All the world loves a clown.

PARODY OF "YOU'RE THE TOP" BY COLE PORTER
You're the pop
You're the baby's father
You're the pop
But you needn't bother
I will make no claim to your ancient name at all
When I let you make me
You promised you'd take me to the city hall
My mistake wasn't getting plastered,
What a break for the little b***stard
I was bad when I let you get on top
But if baby I'm the momma,
You're the pop!
[Sung by Elaine Stritch when interviewed by Michael Parkinson on YouTube.

Every time I look down on this timeless town
Whether blue or gray be her skies.
Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears,
More and more do I realize:
I love Paris in the springtime.
I love Paris in the fall.
I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles,
I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles.
I love Paris every moment,
Every moment of the year.
I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris?
Because my love is near.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .

You all have learned reliance
On the sacred teachings of Science,
So I hope, through life, you will never decline
In spite of philistine Defiance
To do what all good scientists do.
Experiment.
Make it your motto day and night.
Experiment.
And it will lead you to the light.

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

Night and day you are the one,
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

A college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.

All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see ... Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'