That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.

Quote by Dorothy Parker

Topics: Language Quotes

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine...

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the...

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the...

Art is a form of catharsis

Art is a form of catharsis

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is...

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine...

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.

Every love's the love before in a duller dress

Every love's the love before in a duller dress

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with...

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with...

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill....

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill....

Scratch a lover, find a foe

Scratch a lover, find a foe

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great...

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great...

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would...

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would...

Four misfortunes befall a heedless man who commits adultery: acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, thirdly...

Four misfortunes befall a heedless man who commits adultery: acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, thirdly...

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct

When sex is good theres nothing better, when its bad its not bad.

When sex is good theres nothing better, when its bad its not bad.