Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 4

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• The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Taken, Thinking

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• Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fashion, Women, Advice

  Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934) See Shakespeare 174

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• At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

  Dorothy Parker

  Devil, Tongue, Birth

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

  Dorothy Parker

  Long, Mind, Written

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• It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

  Dorothy Parker

  Peace, Inner Peace, Tragedy

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

  Dorothy Parker

  Manners, Etiquette, Exquisite

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• [On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

  Dorothy Parker

  Real, Agents, Few Friends

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• They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

  Dorothy Parker

  Women, Adventure, Storm

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• Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

  Dorothy Parker

  Money, Healthy, Settling

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sadness, Long, Misery

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• Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

  Dorothy Parker

  Foxes, Grapes, Sour

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sweet, People, Firsts

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.78, Penguin

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• Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.

  Dorothy Parker

  God, Law, Opposites

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• Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

  Dorothy Parker

  Baby, Looks, Four

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• What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beauty, Order, Essence

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• Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Men, Glasses

  "News Item" l. 1 (1926)

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• Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Wine, Envy

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• [On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

  Dorothy Parker

  Party, Apples, Errors

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• There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

  Dorothy Parker

  Best Years Of Your Life, Syntax, Study

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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

  Dorothy Parker

  Women, Men, Earth

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• all men are the same age.

  Dorothy Parker

  Men, Age

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.176, Penguin

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• Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Life, Song

  "Comment" l. 1 (1926)

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• Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

  Dorothy Parker

  Lying, Advice, Storm

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Book, Hands

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