Cole Porter Quotes

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But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion.
Yes I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.

Cole Porter
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

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...

Cole Porter
Be the poor silly ass
And you'll always travel first class.
Give 'em quips, give 'em fun,
And they'll pay to say you're A–1.
If you become a farmer, you've the weather to buck.
If become a gambler you'll be struck with your luck.
But jack you'll never lack if you can quack like a duck.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.

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.

Cole Porter
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
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
There's no love song finer,
But how strange the change from major to minor
Every time we say goodbye.

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

Cole Porter
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

Cole Porter
When they begin the Beguine
It brings back the sound of music so tender,
It brings back a night of tropical splendour,
It brings back a memory ever green.

Cole Porter
Love for sale,
Appetizing young love for sale.
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled,
Love that's only slightly soiled,
Love for sale.

Cole Porter
In shallow shoals, English soles do it
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it.

Cole Porter
If you want to buy my wares
Follow me and climb the stairs …
Love for sale.

Cole Porter
You'd be so nice to come home to
You'd be so nice by the fire...

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.

Cole Porter
Wear the cap and the bells
And you'll rate all the great swells.
If you become a doctor, folks'll face you with dread.
If you become a dentist, they'll be glad when you're dead.
You get a bigger hand if you can stand on your head.
Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.

Cole Porter
So kiss me Kate,
Thou lovely loon,
E'er we start on our honeymoon.
Oh, kiss me, Kate, Darling devil divine,
For now thou shall ever be mine.

Cole Porter
He said my bronchial tubes were entrancing,
My epiglottis filled him with glee,
He simply loved my larynx
And went wild about my pharynx,
But he never said he loved me.

Cole Porter
So goodbye dear, and Amen,
Here's hoping we meet now and then,
It was great fun,
But it was just one of those things.

Cole Porter
You're the Nile,
You're the Tower of Pisa,
You're the smile On the Mona Lisa....
But if, Baby, I'm the bottom you're the top!

Cole Porter
There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

Cole Porter
Another pain where the ulcers grow,
Another op'nin' of another show.

Cole Porter
Night and day, you are the one,
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

Cole Porter
Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.

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

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

Cole Porter
I've got you under my skin,
I've got you deep in the heart of me,
So deep in my heart, you're really a part of me,
I've got you under my skin.

Cole Porter
It must be fun to be you
And play with love as you do
To treat each new romance
As merely one more dance
Or just another book to glance through
It must be fun to acquire
Whatever heart you desire,
And when you're bored with it
To tear it in two,
It must be fun to be you.

Cole Porter