Classic putdowns from famous women
Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.
-- Bette Davis
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
-- Mae West
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society, outside of a kennel.
-- Joan Crawford in The Women
Mr Maugham, I have two words left to say to you, and the second one is "off."
-- Tallulah Bankhead to Somerset Maugham (after been turned down for one of his plays)
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
-- Mae West
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
-- Dorothy Parker on Katharine Hepburn's acting abilities
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
-- Bette Davis on Jayne Mansfield
[via The Guardian]
-- Bette Davis
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
-- Mae West
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society, outside of a kennel.
-- Joan Crawford in The Women
Mr Maugham, I have two words left to say to you, and the second one is "off."
-- Tallulah Bankhead to Somerset Maugham (after been turned down for one of his plays)
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
-- Mae West
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
-- Dorothy Parker on Katharine Hepburn's acting abilities
Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
-- Bette Davis on Jayne Mansfield
[via The Guardian]