Quote by Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

Other quotes by Dorothy Parker

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. – Dorothy Parker

Category:
Teenagers
Read Quote

He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. – Dorothy Parker

Category:
Office
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Brevity
category

I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French

Category:
Brevity

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. – Branch Rickey

Category:
Brevity

If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. – M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”

Category:
Brevity

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Brevity

Random Quotes

If you would live innocently, seek solitude. – Publilius Syrus

Category:
Innocence

Qigong is a strategy for freedom from our cage of isolation. – Garri Garripoli, Qigong: Essence of the Healing Dance

Category:
Qigong

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion. – Tony Snow

Category:
Fear

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane. – Dennis Prager

Category:
Death