A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
Jacqueline Kennedy
A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jacqueline Kennedy
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jacqueline Kennedy
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
Jacqueline Kennedy
I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
Jacqueline Kennedy
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jacqueline Kennedy
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jacqueline Kennedy
I want to live my life, not record it.
Jacqueline Kennedy
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
Jacqueline Kennedy
It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jacqueline Kennedy
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jacqueline Kennedy
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jacqueline Kennedy
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
Jacqueline Kennedy
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jacqueline Kennedy
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jacqueline Kennedy
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jacqueline Kennedy
When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
Jacqueline Kennedy
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Type:
First Lady
Date of Birth:
1929-07-28
Year of Death:
1994
Nationality:
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