Dorothy Parker Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  "Unfortunate Coincidence" l. 1 (1926)

• Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Lying, Party

  "The Flaw in Paganism" l. 1 (1931)

• He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

  Dorothy Parker

  Lying, Woods, Cypresses

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

• 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

• I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?

  Dorothy Parker

  Hurt, Lying, Book

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.80, Penguin

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