Anita Loos

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.

— Anita Loos

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

— Anita Loos

Fate keeps on happening.

— Anita Loos

The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

— Anita Loos

If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

— Anita Loos

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

— Anita Loos

So this gentlemen said, “A girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.”

— Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

— Anita Loos

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

— Anita Loos

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

— Anita Loos

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

— Anita Loos

Why, Benjamin Franklin says a man without a woman is like a half a pair of scissors.

— Anita Loos

So I am beginning to wonder if maybe girls wouldn’t be happier if we stopped demanding so much respeckt [sic] for ourselves and developped [sic] a little more respeckt for husbands.

— Anita Loos

Of course, everybody knows that the greatest thing about Motherhood is the “Sacrifices,” but it is quite a shock to find out that they begin so far ahead of time.

— Anita Loos

The people I’m furious with are the Women’s Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

— Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn’t paid for is as insipid as everything else that’s free.

— Anita Loos

France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

— Anita Loos

… memory is more indelible than ink.

— Anita Loos