We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners.

Quote by Ben Hecht

Topics: Manners Quotes

Love is a hole in the heart.

Love is a hole in the heart.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my...

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my...

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak...

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of...

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required...

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much...

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much...

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

He [Mickey Mouse] popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago...

He [Mickey Mouse] popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago...

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you...

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you...

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so...

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so...