Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
Dorothy Parker
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Dorothy Parker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Dorothy Parker
Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.
Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker
The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.'
Dorothy Parker
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing.…
Dorothy Parker
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
Dorothy Parker
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Dorothy Parker
I don't care what is written about me, so long as it isn't true.
Dorothy Parker
That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.
Dorothy Parker
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Dorothy Parker
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
Dorothy Parker
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.