Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Lorenz Hart

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Lorenz Hart.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Lorenz Hart

Lorenz Milton Hart was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include "Blue Moon", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", and "My Funny Valentine".

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true. — © Lorenz Hart
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
Unrequited love's a bore.
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. In each scenario, you can depend on the end where the lovers agree. Where's my Lothario? Where does he roam, with his dome Vaselined as can be?
Blue moon you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own.
I get too hungry for dinner at eight. I like the theater, but never come late. I never bother with people I hate. That's why the lady is a tramp.
Hate California--it's cold and it's damp.
I took one look at you That's all I meant to do And my heart stood still.
The lovely loving and the hateful hates.
When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!
I'm a great believer in conversational rhythm. I think in terms of rhythmic dialogue. It's so easy, you can talk naturally. It's like peas rolling off a knife. Take the great screen actors and actresses, Bette Davis, Eddie Robinson, Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy. They all talk in rhythm. And rhythm and movement are the life of the screen.
Falling in love with love Is falling for make-believe.
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