Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1094
AUTHOR:
Jerome Lawrence (1915– )
QUOTATION:
Yes! Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death! Live!
ATTRIBUTION:
JEROME LAWRENCE and ROBERT E. LEE, Auntie Mame, act II, scene vi (1957). Auntie Mame is speaking. Based on the novel of the same title by Patrick Dennis.
