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Auntie Em--Hate you. Hate Kansas. Taking the dog.
-- Dorothy
Hell's afloat in lovers' tears.
-- Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
-- Dorothy Parker
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
-- Dorothy Parker
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
-- Dorothy Parker
The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
-- Dorothy Parker
"Tell him I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa."
-- Dorothy Parker
"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
-- Dorothy Parker
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-- Dorothy Parker
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
-- Dorothy Parker
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
-- Dorothy Parker ('Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928)
"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."
-- Dorothy Parker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
-- Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
-- Dorothy Parker (Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item")
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with RAISINS in it.
-- Dorothy Parker
"Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere."
-- Dorothy Galyean
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
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
-- Timothy Leary
Glamour is that indefinable something about a girl who has a large bosom.
-- Andy Rothman
I trusted him like a brother -- which is to say, not at all.
You're probably the sort who would have Dorothy arrested for throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West.
-- Eric Holeman
Subduction leads to orogeny!
"In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them."
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers
Most people deserve each other.
Nothing true is popular, and nothing popular is true.
For most mothers, day care is a problem. I'm looking for night care, too.
-- Cathy Crimmins
Do unto others before they undo you.
"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Q: How do you keep a moron in suspense?
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong
And I am Marie of Roumania.
-- Dororhy Parker
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers ("What Every Woman Should Know About Men")
"Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth."
-- Mark Van Doren