Jean Kerr: Likeness

Jean Kerr was Irish-American author and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Jean Kerr: 28 quotes0 likes

“The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.”

Time magazine (April 14, 1961)

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

Jean Kerr book Please Don't Eat the Daisies

"How to Get the Best of Your Children"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself—like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

"How to Talk to a Man"
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)

“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.”

"The Ten Worst Things about a Man"
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)