Top 25 Anna Held Quotes

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

If I get married, I think I’d pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

I don’t want to get married, and I don’t want to work after I’m 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.

For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

You’ll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.