Quotes by Cole Porter - Page 1

All the world loves a clown.
Cole Porter / Composer
Clown
World
World Love
All The World
Loves
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Night and day, you are the one.
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Love
Crush
Night
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Let's Do It; Let's Fall in Love.
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Love
Fall
Falling In Love
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Now: heaven knows, anything goes.
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Freedom
Anything Goes
Heaven
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Something that simply mystifies me.
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I've got you deep in the heart of me.
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.
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Millionaire
Want
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Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect.
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Phones
Want
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What moments divine , what rapture serene.
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Divine
Moments
Serenity
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I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
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Travel
Paris
Summer
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It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
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Delicious
Delightful
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It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.
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Fun
Just One
Justice
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
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Directors
Inspiration
Sole
Telephones
Director
Telephone
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If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail.
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Cute
Smile
Bail
Jail
Land
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He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
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Sister
Hair
Lassie
May
Chest
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There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
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Burning
Hungry
Yearning
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Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?
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Affair
Millionaire
Want
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I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?
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Asks
Heaven
Lord
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Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
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Gentleman
Kicks
Like Love
Gentlemen
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All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.
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Inspiration
Phone Calls
Phones
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Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
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Wedding
Moon
Night
Sun
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If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs... Love for sale.
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Follow Me
Stairs
Want
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Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.
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I Love You
Love
Bird
Fall
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I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.
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Baby
Checks
Wrecks
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Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
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Blue
Passion
Singing
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a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes
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Clothes
College
Degrees
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Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow.
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Brushes
Quoting
Wow
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I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.
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Berlin
Song
Writing
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The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
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Falling In Love
Pekingese
Pits
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
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Glimpse
Shocking
Days
Goes
Looked
Olden
Stocking
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
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Change
Funny
Smile
Book
Humorous
Prose
Use
Writing
Words
Now
Once
Anything
Good Better Anything
Authors
Too
Four-Letter
Goes
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Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .
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Boston
Falling In Love
Mean
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Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .
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Laughing
Play
World Love
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Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.
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Add
Self
Track
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I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
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Alcohol
Thrill
Wine
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Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.
Cole Porter / Composer
Food
Cooking
Done
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This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.
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Aces
Holes
Trying
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I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in
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Looks
Moon
Want
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Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'
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Liberty
Lines
Remember
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The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
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Zoos
Eagles
Falling In Love
Kangaroos
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.
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Mad
Night
White
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You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.
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Learning
Science
Teaching
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Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in
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Country
Land
Sky
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
Cole Porter / Composer
Inspiration
Song
Writing
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Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.
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Cheer
Fall
Summer
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