Quote #8
[A] lady ... with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.
More from Dorothy Parker
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- Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
- That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- [On the most beautiful words in the English language] The ones I like...are 'cheque' and 'enclosed.'
- It is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
- And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
- 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…
- I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn thin…