Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Quotes:

If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.

- Barbara Eden

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Gentleman, Blonde, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

- Leo Robin

source: "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (song) (1949) See Advertising Slogans 39; Loos 2

topic: Girl, Kissing, Hands, Continental, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Inspiring, Girl, Men, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Being Pretty

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.

- Don Herold

source: Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

topic: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Kissing, Hands, Forever, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Jewellery

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

- Jane Russell

source: "Fictional character: Dorothy Shaw". "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", www.imdb.com. 1953.

topic: Running, Men, Faster, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

- Anita Loos

topic: Style, Gowns, Sawdust, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Evening Gowns

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

- Anita Loos

topic: Gentleman, Blonde, Looks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Crowds, Mental Health, Middle, Lonesome, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

- Anita Loos

topic: Gentleman, Brunette, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Say what you want about the deaf.

- Jimmy Carr

source: Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.128, Penguin

topic: Nihilism, Want, Deaf, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Black Humor

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

- Anita Loos

source: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) ch. 1

topic: Girl, Thinking, Brain, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

- Anita Loos

topic: Kissing, Hands, Forever, Bracelet, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

- Anita Loos

topic: Girl, Fun, Laughing, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Stars, Gentleman, Looks, Brunette, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes