Quotes by Alan Lerner

• It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
• You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
• With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!
• Men die but an idea does not.
• Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
• Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.
• An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
• A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
• Why can't a woman be more like a man?