Zsa Zsa Gabor Quotes

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

My momma says whenever you go to somebody's house, you have to give them something. Don't come empty-handed.

Presents? We already bought you a lot of things. Member when we were at the market and I bought you gum? You'member.

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

If he invited you out, he's got to pay.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

Listen, re-gifting is fine as long as there is transparency. You just have to be like, 'This is something I got that I couldn't use, and I thought you might like it.'

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

There's nothing worse than going out without contributing.

I hated that the soldier doll had my name. I mean, please. I didn't play with him much. He was another Christmas present from my clueless grandparents. One time when they were visiting, my grandpa asked me if G.I. Joe had been in any wars lately. I said, "No, but he and Ken got married last week." Every Christmas since then, my grandparents have sent me a check.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.