Cole Porter Quotes

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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer.

Cole Porter
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.

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

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

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

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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.

Cole Porter
Too bad, I'm no poet,
I happen to know it, But anyway
Here's a roundelay
I wrote last night about you...

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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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I'm very mild, I'm very meek,
My will is strong, but my won't is weak.

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

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They say that bears
Have love affairs
And even camels,
We're merely mammals
Let's misbehave.

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You're the pain in my —
The hurricane in my —
Supersensitive heart, dear.
Still I love you, I know,
And the reason is merely because
You irritate me so!

Cole Porter
Relax for a moment my Jerry
Come out of your dark monastery
While Venus is beaming above.
Darling, let's talk about love.

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

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

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She: Have you heard it's in the stars,
Next July we collide with Mars?
He: well, did you evah! What a swell party this is.

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

Cole Porter