Cole Porter Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

All the world loves a clown.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

I get no kick from champagne, Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why should it be true, That I get a kick out of you?

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Trivia

Cole's life story was told in the films Night and Day and De-Lovely.

Cole wrote the music for the musical Anything Goes.

Cole wrote the music for the musical Kiss Me Kate.

Cole lived at the Waldorf-Astoria Tower, New York, from 1939-1964.

Cole learned piano and violin at the age of 6.

Cole was portrayed by Kevin Kline in the biography De-Lovely.

He had his left leg amputated in his later years.