QuotesBy.net


Home › Authors › D › Dorothy Parker

Quote #26

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

— Dorothy Parker

More from Dorothy Parker

  1. And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at …
  2. Katharine Hepburn delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
  3. That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.
  4. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
  5. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
  6. Dear Mary, We all knew you had it in you!
  7. You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
  8. Excuse me, I have to go to the ladies room. Actually, I need to make a telephone call, I was just too embarrassed to say.

All Dorothy Parker quotes

← Doris Lessing All D authors Dorothy Thompson →

Related quotes

  • I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me. Ali Larter
  • Having an interest in clothes is a sign of vanity and English men don't like to be seen t… Trinny Woodall
  • If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circ… Sandra Bernhard
  • The show is much more emotional now. It's a journey, but it is still about clothes, too. … Susannah Constantine
  • Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs He turns revolt into a style, prolongs The … Thom Gunn
  • For us, it's all about shape, and how that is going to cure a bodily defect. Susannah Constantine

Topics in this quote

  • wit
  • attraction
  • desire
  • fashion
  • style

Related authors

  • Orson Scott Card
  • Phil Hendrie
  • Steven Wright
  • Groucho Marx
  • P. G. Wodehouse
  • Woody Allen

Browse

  • Authors starting with D
  • All authors A–Z

QuotesBy.net