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Dorothy Parker Quotes

«With the crown of thorns I wear, why should I be bothered with a prick like you?»
«. . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.»
«If you would learn what God thinks about money, you have only to look at those to whom he has given it»
«And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.»
«I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.»
«Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she will but she can.»
«[We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.»
«She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: gamut
«He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses them. . . . He can take you to a bicycle race and make it raise your hair.»
«Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats.»