Dorothy Parker quotes Born: 08/22/1893 Died: 06/07/1967 Country: usa

• Brevity is the soul of lingerie. (Dorothy Parker) [brevity]
• This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. (Dorothy Parker)
• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. (Dorothy Parker) [novel]
• Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world. (Dorothy Parker)
• Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. (Dorothy Parker) [etiquette/right/point]
• Scratch a lover, and find a foe. (Dorothy Parker) [find]
• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away. (Dorothy Parker) [love]
• 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]
• The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed. (Dorothy Parker) [words/english/language]
• He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. (Dorothy Parker) [office/adultery]
• I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. (Dorothy Parker)
• Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. (Dorothy Parker)
• Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. (Dorothy Parker) [sorrow]
• She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. (Dorothy Parker)
• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires. (Dorothy Parker) [housing/housing]
• Art is a form of catharsis. (Dorothy Parker) [art/form]
• They sicken at the calm that know the storm. (Dorothy Parker) [calm/storm]
• I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn. (Dorothy Parker) [give]
• Work is the province of cattle. (Dorothy Parker) [cattle]
• Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. (Dorothy Parker) [truth/words]
• Ìóæ÷èíà, åñëè áû è ñìîã ïîíÿòü, ÷òî äóìàåò æåíùèíà, âñå ðàâíî íå ïîâåðèë áû. (Dorothy Parker) [men and women]

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