Jean Kerr

Jean Kerr (1923-2003), born Bridget Jean Collins, was an Irish-US author and playwright. Her notable works are "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" (1957) and the plays "King of Hearts" (1954) and "Mary, Mary" in 1961.

Wisdom & Quotes

• I'm tired of all this business about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, in The Snake Has All the Lines

• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it is just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.

- In Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Joseph Heller