Dorothy Parker on appearance
Dorothy Parker115 quotes“If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker It was written without fear and without research.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings But this is Miami, you can’t come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you’re all covered up in this heat, you’re gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It’s sweaty in Miami – but the diamonds will keep me cool.
Lil' KimLil' Kim But this is Miami, you can’t come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you’re all covered up in this heat, you’re gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It’s sweaty in Miami – but the diamonds will keep me cool.
Lil' KimLil' Kim When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Jewelry is incredibly feminine, and reflects the grace and beauty of a women’s style like nothing else.
Ivanka TrumpIvanka Trump I make things of my own that aren’t that glam, but I’m not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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