Louise Brooks Quotes

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

‘I was simply playing myself, which is the hardest thing in the world to do – if you know that it’s hard. I didn’t, so it seemed easy.

A well-dressed woman, even if her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

We were Midwesterners born in the Bible Belt of Anglo-Saxon farmers, who prayed in the parlor and practised incest in the barn

<nowiki/>'Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

I was navigating, but not seeing.

The rest of the girls wore smiles as fixed as their towering feather headdresses. I decided right then that onstage I would never smile unless I felt like it.

I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

'I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.