1920s Quotes
Collection of top 36 famous quotes about 1920s
1920s Quotes & Sayings
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If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
— Lauren Bacall
Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffiewith knobs on! — P.G. Wodehouse
Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
— J. Paul Getty
Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
— John Conyers
I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.
— Lauren Conrad
Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.
— Stephen Hawking
The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.
— Robert Gottlieb
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
— Lionel Hampton
In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.
— Ron Chernow
Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
— David Rockefeller
His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.
— Jami Attenberg
Income and wealth inequality in America today has reached levels not seen since the 1920s. Corporate
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.
— Lucy Foley
She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.
— Noel Coward
Pleasure was the color of the time.
— Harold Clurman
There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
— Elizabeth McGovern
Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time.
— Neal Shusterman
I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated ... and I trust so are his war stories.
— Richard Finney
Golf shows your character.
— Victoria Brown
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
— William Kennedy
When we studied the 1920s, he pretended that cell phones were illegal and made half the class narcs, and then he had us read The Great Gatsby.
— Alison Umminger
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
— William Kennedy
The books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.
— John Updike
I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
— Paul McCartney
I don't think today's younger audience ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
— Julie Andrews
I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.
— Janelle Monae
The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.
— Amity Shlaes
