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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls who attended the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised
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 If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be ...
DOROTHY PARKER If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit suprised.
DOROTHY PARKER If all efficiency experts were laid end to end- I'd be in favor of it
AL DIAMOND If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
PETER LYNCH If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
ANONYMOUS If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end
ARTHUR BAER If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
ARTHUR 'BUGS' BAER If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
BUGS BAER If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach any conclusion.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If all the ruminations and ponderances were laid end to end along the equator, they would most likel...
ED SMITH If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusi...
SOURCE UNKNOWN If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea...
UNKNOWN It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to e...
SOURCE UNKNOWN If you laid ever economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.
SALVADOR NASELLO If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
DOUG LARSON I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST I didn't know what other riders' times were, so at the end I was a little bit surprised. But the guy...
FLOYD LANDIS The stronger the identification with the team, typically the stronger emotional reaction to the loss...
CHRISTIAN END Fans are relatively resilient in coping with loss. If we weren't, there would be no Cubs fans.
CHRISTIAN END In terms of popularity, what hobby compares to being a sports fan?
CHRISTIAN END When you're exposed to aggressive stimuli like you are in football, you're more prone to act in an a...
CHRISTIAN END When you're among 60,000 of your closest friends, your accountability diminishes. It's very differen...
CHRISTIAN END When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy Parker retorted, "Not if it was buttoned...
DOROTHY PARKER Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
HALLIE EPHRON If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with th...
ANDREW JOHNSON If all the kids who made noises about killing their parents were laid end to end, you'd have an enor...
FRANKLIN ZIMRING I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN I'm a little bit surprised. Perhaps some people were expecting them to raise their guidance or come ...
KAREN HAUS If I were to see the future and notice that I were alive at age of ninety, I would, at sixty, end it...
JUSTIN MURTEY So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong?
In the end you might be surprised to fin...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH There's very little difference between the two of us right now, if any. I wouldn't be surprised if i...
JOE LYNCH I would not be surprised to see an agreement by the end of this year,
ANDY ROTHMAN I was surprised at the end when we had the dissension. I still don't know what happened.
DEBBIE HUNSAKER Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage...
WILLIAM BOOTH Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have...
ERNEST HASKINS Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have
ERNEST HASKINS My heart goes out for the girls. I know we didn't necessarily show consistency, but at the end I tho...
SAM POWELL So a guy like that, I think I would be surprised if he didn't end up banging around a few years with...
FLOYD REESE Losing those early matches all in a row just tore our morale in two. I'm surprised that we were able...
JOE HORVATH A film ingeniously directed does indeed give the impression of having been laid end to end, but a fi...
JEAN-LUC GODARD Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
DAVID WONG If we were talking constant dollar, which is all we should be talking about, they came in at the hig...
ERIC COLDWELL I think the name Firestone is a bad odor, period. I would not be surprised if this were going to be ...
KURT BARNARD I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?
TABITHA SUZUMA Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ...
MARIO PUZO Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictio...
DAVID LODGE At the end, I noticed they were a little angry and frustrated, but that's to be expected.
ANDRES NOCIONI If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me...
BERT WHITNEY If I traveled to the end of the rainbow - As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell ...
BERT WHITNEY If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me...
EDWARD KOCH The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginnin...
LEMONY SNICKET I think we were the fresher team at the end.
JIM SMITH I was surprised, ... I didn't expect the tight end to be able sneak through and cut my legs up, but ...
VICTOR HOBSON I felt they were trying to make a statement at the end.
EUGENE LAWRENCE I'd be surprised if this was the end of Eminem as a recording artist, but if you call your most rece...
MARSHALL MATHERS All of the girls played really hard tonight. We struggled a little at the end with their press but w...
COACH LORI BELL If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time.
LUANNE RICE I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of...
RICHARD ARMITAGE If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me...
ED KOCH We were trying to lean on each other and help each other. I was surprised how much of a lead I had a...
CHARLES SCHAFER We had some stupid plays at the end. But we went out with all our guns blazing. I'm very proud of th...
RICK SORACCO We'll be all right at the end of the day.
BOB DAVIS I think that they were the team that were choking, if that's the word, under pressure a little bit a...
GRAEME SMITH The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
SARAH DESSEN Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
DOROTHY PARKER I would not be surprised to see J&J come back. They've got $16 billion in cash at the end of 2005. T...
BRUCE NUDELL At the end of the day, we're just trying to be honest and, hopefully, get more females on the ra...
TAYLOR DYE If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be c...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If it was up to me, we'd all end up starving. These people were ingenious.
JIM MARTISE Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of ...
DAVID LODGE We had to go through a lot of ice packs at first when the girls were learning to throw and catch. Bu...
ANTHONY CONTRERAS You've got to give (North) a lot of credit because they had to have something to do with (our offens...
BILL SPENCER Just know that I always have, and always will really love you, Lisa. Baby or no baby. Past or no pas...
A. VIOLET END Look, that was some weird shit, you dying and then returning from the dead. I know it was no acciden...
A. VIOLET END I was actually positively surprised at the timing. I didn't expect to see any move toward a settleme...
CHARLES LYNCH In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON At the end of the day, the girls showed character and fight. We have plenty of that. We were down 10...
CHARLES MCKNIGHT I think he might be very surprised. But the promoter in him would love the idea of a year-long celeb...
BOB HUNEFELD The girls fought until the end, so I have to be happy about that, ... We held them and had a little ...
JULIE CRAVEN There's still an element of the self-fulfilling prophecy here, in that you're seeing people jump int...
CHRIS JOHNSON If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be c...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There is a very short reference at the end of the audio -- if it lasts 30 seconds, I'd be surprised ...
PATRICK ROCKS I wouldn't be surprised to see Judge Jackson rule by the end of this week. He hasn't shown a lot of ...
JOE SIMS At the end of the game I think we were a little fresher.
GUILLERMO MENDOZA this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhilir...
PRISCILLA WARNER What am I going to do? If I end up hurting one and they sue me, they'll end up with all the real pro...
DALE HORNER [The Family] said that if I left, at best I'd end up working at McDonald's, at worst I'd be a heroin...
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And who's the one that cares
A trifling lot and...
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Broke my brittle heart in two;
And ...
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DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
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DOROTHY PARKER The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...
DOROTHY PARKER If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I...
DOROTHY PARKER She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
DOROTHY PARKER If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER Inventory:
"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...
DOROTHY PARKER There's little in taking or giving
There's little in water or wine
This living, this livin...
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad<...
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,
Some men fawn and flatter,
Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a...
DOROTHY PARKER Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi...
DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue
And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si...
DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
DOROTHY PARKER He'd have given me rolling lands,
Houses of marble, and billowing farms,
Pearls, to trickle ...
DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
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DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
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DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
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DOROTHY PARKER It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
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DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
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DOROTHY PARKER His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.
DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.
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DOROTHY PARKER Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of...
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DOROTHY PARKER The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
DOROTHY PARKER This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
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DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never ...
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
DOROTHY PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
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DOROTHY PARKER I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things....
DOROTHY PARKER DOROTHY PARKER Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
DOROTHY PARKER I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
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Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cau...
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DOROTHY PARKER The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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DOROTHY PARKER The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories ...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk;
the clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet's the air...
DOROTHY PARKER One more drink and I'll be under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKER I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Concepti...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is thing that can n...
DOROTHY PARKER Scratch an actor - and you'll find an actress.
DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
DOROTHY PARKER Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme -
I never said they feed my heart, DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKER That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it wa...
DOROTHY PARKER Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
DOROTHY PARKER If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high ...
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 I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound -...
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKER The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of t...
DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can...
DOROTHY PARKER Art is a form of catharsis.
DOROTHY PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
afte...
DOROTHY PARKER The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
DOROTHY PARKER If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all a...
DOROTHY PARKER Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?
A: You can't hear an enzyme.
DOROTHY PARKER Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKER She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
DOROTHY PARKER I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
DOROTHY PARKER This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
DOROTHY PARKER Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.
DOROTHY PARKER Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKER tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
DOROTHY PARKER This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
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DOROTHY PARKER This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
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DOROTHY PARKER I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
DOROTHY PARKER The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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DOROTHY PARKER Excuse my dust
DOROTHY PARKER Check enclosed.
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DOROTHY PARKER A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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DOROTHY PARKER Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.
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DOROTHY PARKER Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKER Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and ...
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...
DOROTHY PARKER As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
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DOROTHY PARKER We wanted corporate to know we expected better.
DOROTHY PARKER . . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a penci...
DOROTHY PARKER And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the r...
DOROTHY PARKER [We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.
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DOROTHY PARKER I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it wou...
DOROTHY PARKER She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B
DOROTHY PARKER Every love's the love before in a duller dress
DOROTHY PARKER This living, this living, this living/ Was never a project of mine.
DOROTHY PARKER The doctors were very brave about it.
DOROTHY PARKER I want people to learn something they didn't know, ... We hope people have fun and learn about our c...
DOROTHY PARKER This is on me.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say "No" in any of them
DOROTHY PARKER Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.
DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts a...
DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two,/ Some men fawn and flatter,/ Some men never look at you;/ And that...
DOROTHY PARKER I can't write five words but that I change seven.
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DOROTHY PARKER Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
DOROTHY PARKER Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much
DOROTHY PARKER You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
DOROTHY PARKER It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.
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DOROTHY PARKER Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarras...
DOROTHY PARKER Somebody was using the pencil.
DOROTHY PARKER That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it ...
DOROTHY PARKER A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially,...
DOROTHY PARKER I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER "Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language
DOROTHY PARKER She looks as new as a peeled egg
DOROTHY PARKER She looks like something that would eat its young
DOROTHY PARKER I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate C...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un...
DOROTHY PARKER Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil...
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who know the storm
DOROTHY PARKER People are more fun than any body
DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule...
DOROTHY PARKER I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism
DOROTHY PARKER There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simp...
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.
DOROTHY PARKER I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air wit...
DOROTHY PARKER The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
DOROTHY PARKER This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone]
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to exci...
DOROTHY PARKER Money is only congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I...
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