Quote #6

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

More from Dorothy Parker

  1. It is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
  2. The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.
  3. Well, Aimee Semple McPherson has written a book. And were you to call it a little peach, you would not be so much as scratching its surface…
  4. [A] lady ... with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.
  5. Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
  6. Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
  7. And she had It. It, hell; she had Those.
  8. [On the most beautiful words in the English language] The ones I like...are 'cheque' and 'enclosed.'

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