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21 quotes by Jean Kerr

Jean Kerr (July 10, 1922 – January 5, 2003) was an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary.
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I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it... →

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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

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Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

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Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't... →

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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit... →

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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

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Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

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Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

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