Quote: Brevity is the soul of lingerie. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Scratch a lover, and find a foe. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Art is a form of catharsis. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: They sicken at the calm that know the storm. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Work is the province of cattle. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Ducking for apples; change one letter and it's the story of my life. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. [Dorothy Parker]
Quote: Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone [Dorothy Parker]