Beatrice Kaufman Quotes

Beatrice Bakrow Kaufman was an American editor, writer, and playwright. Though chiefly remembered as the wife of director, humorist, and playwright George S. Kaufman, she had a distinguished literary career of her own, and during the 1930s and '40s, was regarded as "one of the wittiest women in New York" who was "influential in shaping American taste and culture in the early twentieth century". Wikipedia

✵ 20. January 1895 – 6. October 1945

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Beatrice Kaufman Quotes

“I've been poor and I've been rich. Rich is better!”

Beatrice Kaufman

Leonard Lyons' column, The Washington Post, May 12, 1937. Quoted in the Yale Book of Quotations, and The Quote Verifier by Ralph Keyes. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/01/poor-rich/