Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• 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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• They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

  Dorothy Parker

  Women, Adventure, Storm

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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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• Three highballs, and I think I'm St. Francis of Assisi.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Thinking, St Francis Of Assisi

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.87, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sweet, Clouds, Air

  Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Sadness, Long, Misery

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Women, Men, Earth

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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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• If I had a shiny gun I could have a world of fun Speeding bullets through the brains Of the folks that cause me pains :)

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Pain, Gun

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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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• (Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Dog, Fun

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• 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)

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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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• 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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• I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Darling, Millionaire

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• The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.

  Dorothy Parker

  Casinos, Shirts, Lost

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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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