Sample Essays & Free Papers For You

A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.

Quotations

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. SwiftPapers now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
A B C
D
E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Dorothy Parker Quotes

«Somebody was using the pencil.»
«If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all assume that Oscar said it.»
«I never see that prettiest thing - / A cherry bough gone white with Spring - / But what I think, 'How gay 'twould be / To hang me from a flowering tree.'»
«I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.»
«All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.»
«The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | About: Home | Keywords: air out, atmosphere, tires
«Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow.»
«There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.»
«Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | About: Money, Shame | Keywords: fulfill, horseman, lawful, woe
«Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | About: Seasons | Keywords: autumn, drowsy, lousy, summer, winter

Pages: « Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next »