Jackie Kennedy quotes

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
- Jackie Kennedy

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.
- Jackie Kennedy

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
- Jackie Kennedy

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.
- Jackie Kennedy

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
- Jackie Kennedy

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
- Jackie Kennedy

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
- Jackie Kennedy

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
- Jackie Kennedy

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself
- Jackie Kennedy

Pearls are always appropriate.
- Jackie Kennedy

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.
- Jackie Kennedy

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
- Jackie Kennedy

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.
- Jackie Kennedy

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.
- Jackie Kennedy

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
- Jackie Kennedy

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.
- Jackie Kennedy

I am a woman above everything else.
- Jackie Kennedy

One should always dress like a marble column.
- Jackie Kennedy

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
- Jackie Kennedy

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.
- Jackie Kennedy

I am happiest when I am alone.
- Jackie Kennedy