Cole Porter Quotes

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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer.

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It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

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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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In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking, But now, God knows, Anything goes.

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He may have hair upon his chest
But, sister, so has Lassie.

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You do something to me,
Something that simply mystifies me.

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I get no kick from champagne.
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,
So tell me why it should be true
That I get a kick out of you?

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Some get a kick from cocaine.
I'm sure that if
I took even one sniff
That would bore me terrifically, too,
Yet, I get a kick out of you.

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If the Louvre custodian can,
If the Guard Republican can,
If Van Gogh and Matisse and Cézanne can,
Baby, you can can-can too.

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What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?
Just who can solve this mystery?
Why should it make a fool of me?

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So make it another old-fashioned, please.
Leave out the cherry,
Leave out the orange,
Leave out the bitters,
Just make it a straight rye!

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They say that spring
Means just one thing
To little lovebirds.
We're not above birds,
Lets misbehave.

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You're the top! You're the Coliseum,
You're the top! You're the Louvre Museum.

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Of course, I'm awfly glad that Mother had to marry Father,
But I hate men.

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We're all alone No chaperon Can get our number, The world's in slumber, Let's misbehave.

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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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Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

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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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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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If you want a future, darling,
Why don't you get a past?

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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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Electric eels I might add do it,
Though it shocks 'em I know...

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At words poetic, I'm so pathetic
That I always have found it best
Instead of getting 'em off my chest,
To let 'em rest unexpressed.

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You'd be so nice,
You'd be paradise
To come home to and love.

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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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You are my fav'rite star,
My haven in heaven above,
You are ev'rything I love.

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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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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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And when they ask us, how dangerous it was,
Oh, we'll never tell them, no, we'll never tell them:
We spent our pay in some café
And fought wild women night and day,
'Twas the cushiest job we ever had.

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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.

Cole Porter