Patrick Dennis > Quotes

“I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
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― Patrick Dennis

“Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame

“Daddy always said that Christmas is a joyous season when suicides and holdups and shoplifting and like that reach a new high and that the best place to spend the whole thing is a Moslem country.”
― Patrick Dennis, The Joyous Season

“Why darling, I'm your Auntie Mame!”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“she thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night”
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“Morning, I soon discovered, was one o’clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.”
― Patrick Dennis

“I wish you wouldn’t use the term Christian where it is so obviously misapplied,” Auntie Mame said steadily.”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.”
― Patrick Dennis

“Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir--or Sewer--Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Tony's.”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“To Mame, conventional thinking and Early American décor are a prison; she advocates total sexual freedom, world travel, and “the feverish excitement of the creative career!” Mame believes that life must be art,”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“Tipsy actress Vera Charles (who had 'more changes of costume than facial expression,' according to one critic to whom she never spoke again) ...”
― Patrick Dennis

“She was built along the lines of a General Electric refrigerator and looked like a cross between Caligula and a cockatoo. Mother Burnside had beady little eyes, an imperious beak of a nose, sallow skin, and bad breath. She wore a stiff black wig and a stiff black dress and she sat all day long in a darkened drawing room, her pudgy hands - encrusted with dirty diamond rings - folded over her pudgy belly.”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“My dear, a rich vocabulary is the true hallmark of every intellectual person. Here now”—she burrowed into the mess on her bedside table and brought forth another pad and pencil—“every time I say a word, or you hear a word, that you don’t understand, you write it down and I’ll tell you what it means. Then you memorize it and soon you’ll have a decent vocabulary. Oh, the adventure,” she cried ecstatically, “of molding a little new life!” She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget about.”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“and they don’t have to know about a lot of things that ordinary mortals just don’t have to know about!”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“Patrick”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“Mame Dennis:
That's a B. It's the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your father.”
― Patrick Dennis

“Like most men who are supremely unattractive to women, Cousin Elmore was somehow able to find invitation in every insult, a caress in every blow, come-hither in every go-yonder and a yes in every no.”
― Patrick Dennis, Around the World with Auntie Mame

“Auntie Mame sat decoratively on a Louis XIV love seat and discussed the heat, the humidity, how the climate was changing from year to year in New York,”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade

“we shopped and we shopped and we shopped, and now we’re dying for a drink.” She glanced at me. “From the look of you, you suffer from no such problem.”
― Patrick Dennis, Genius

“the twitchy but strangely beautiful lady singing and wrestling with the microphone cord on television was actually Dorothy grown up.”
― Patrick Dennis, Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, Belle Poitrine

“I giochi che si svolgono in silenzio sono quelli più pericolosi”
― Patrick Dennis, Auntie Mame