Jackie Kennedy Quotes

Love of books is the best of all.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

History
its what those bitter old men write.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

Pearls are always appropriate.

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

I am happiest when I am alone.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

One should always dress like a marble column.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college ... I did other things.

Noone can make u feel inferior until u urself consent to it.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.