Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker.
| Born | Dorothy Rothschild August 22, 1893 West End, New Jersey |
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| Died | June 7, 1967 New York, New York |
American writer, satirist, and poet. Best known for the short story "Big Blonde" (1929) and the Oscar-nominated screenplay A Star Is Born (1937).
The repository contains six quotes from Dorothy Parker.
To Clare Boothe Luce, who had held a door open and said, "Age before beauty":
Pearls before swine.
Time wounds all heels.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end-to-end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
