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Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1) QUOTES

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1) QUOTES

1 " Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame "

― Patrick Dennis , Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

2 " 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 (Auntie Mame, #1)

3 " Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. "

― Patrick Dennis , Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

4 " Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death! "

― Patrick Dennis , Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

5 " Why darling, I'm your Auntie Mame! "

― Patrick Dennis , Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

6 " 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 (Auntie Mame, #1)

7 " 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 (Auntie Mame, #1)

8 " 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 (Auntie Mame, #1)

9 " I giochi che si svolgono in silenzio sono quelli più pericolosi "

― Patrick Dennis , Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

10 " 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 (Auntie Mame, #1)

11 " 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 (Auntie Mame, #1)