Elaine Dundy Quotes

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.

The more you play it the less you know about it.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know... wall.

People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them,” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them.

He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

You know, people are saying, they don't understand, really, what I'm doing.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.

My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

Discover how little you know about the people you know.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.