Quote #6

We know you understand that even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth-birth, marriage, death. We wish our wedding to be a private moment in the little chapel among the cypresses of Skorpios.

More from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

  1. A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
  2. Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
  3. Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
  4. Minimum information given with maximum politeness.
  5. He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.
  6. It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
  7. A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sa…
  8. The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

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