“I spend an awful lot of time in the lobby. For instance every day I have to go to the Desk Clerk and see what’s happening there. Then I stop by the Mail Desk to see if they have any stamps.”
“Eloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She may not be pretty yet, but she’s definitely already a real person.”
“Every night when it’s time to go to bed Nanny yawns out loud and says she is tired tired tired
I make as much noise as I possibly can by turning on the phonograph real loud and hollering a lot”
“Here’s what I can do
Chew gum, write, spell, stand on my head for the longest amount of time, stand on my toes, get dizzy and fall down, make a terrible face
And here’s the thing of it
Most of the time I’m on the telephone”
“TV is in the drawing room
I always have to watch it with a parasol in case there’s some sort of glare
And oh my Lord when its fight night Nanny is absolutely wild and we have to scamper into our places and get ready”
“I live down at the end of the hall. Sometimes I take two sticks and skidder them along the walls
And when I run down the hall I slomp my feet agains the woodwork which is very good for scuffing and noise
Sometimes I slomp my skates if I want to make a really loud and terrible racket.”
“Nanny is my nurse
She wears tissue paper in her dress and you can hear it
She is English and has 8 hairpins made out of bones
She says that’s all she needs in this life for Lords sake”
“Getting bored is not allowed
Sometimes I comb my hair with a fork
Sometimes I wear my arm in a sling
Sometimes I put a rubber band on the end of my nose”