Jackie Kennedy Quotes

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

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

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

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

You have only one chance to raise your child.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

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

Love of books is the best of all.

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

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

I want to live my life, not record it.

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

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

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

I am happiest when I am alone.

I am a woman above everything else.

One should always dress like a marble column.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

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

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Pearls are always appropriate.

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

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

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

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