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Letter "B" » Ben Hecht Quotes
«Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.»
«I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.»
«Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.»
«I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt»
«The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
cuff, cuffs, dubious, honors, links, tissue paper
«People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.»
«We trotted, coach-dog fashion, at the heels of the human race, our tails wag.»
«Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Chicago,
Cities
| Keywords:
bravo, bravos, herd, journalistic, Yellowstone
«Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Language,
Television,
Women
| Keywords:
acclaim, acclaimed, last-place, rhapsodically, stamping, stamping ground
«I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain»
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