Jackie Kennedy Quotes

"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."
-Jackie Kennedy

"They're giving them bathrooms, they're giving them roads."
-Jackie Kennedy

"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris."
-Jackie 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."
-Jackie Kennedy

"I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?"
-Jackie Kennedy

"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"
-Jackie Kennedy

"An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor."
-Jackie Kennedy

"I totally believe in the war. You've got to fight for what you believe in. You have to finish what you start."
-Jackie Kennedy