Best 18 quotes of Lucille Kallen on MyQuotes

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

I read it plain on his face, an implacable determination to get at the truth. C.B. Greenfield had mounted his mental charger, and he had a second horse waiting for me.

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

There are some men who possess a quality which goes way beyond romantic or even sexual appeal, a quality which literally enslaves. It has very little to do with looks and nothing at all to do with youth, because there are some quite mature and unathletic specimens who have it. It's an expression in the eyes, an aura of being in control, and responsible, or something easy and powerful in the stance, or who knows.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?