Jackie Kennedy Quotes

[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

I am happiest when I am alone.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

History
its what those bitter old men write.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

Noone can make u feel inferior until u urself consent to it.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

One should always dress like a marble column.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college ... I did other things.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

Pearls are always appropriate.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.