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It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.


Dorothy Dix

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DOROTHY DIX It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that make...
DOROTHY DIX Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
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"Ah!" the fox said. "...
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...
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There's little in water or wine
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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 Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men...
DOROTHY THOMPSON 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 Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you shou...
DOROTHY HAMILL The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsa...
DOROTHY NEVILL 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...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
DOROTHY DAY 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.
DOROTHY PARKER How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts...
DOROTHY DAY He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summa...
DOROTHY UHNAK If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increa...
DOROTHY DAY