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

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) – Dorothy Parker

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

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Office
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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

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Teenagers
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Other Quotes from
Brevity
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If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure. – Lord Sandwich

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Brevity

Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

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Brevity

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

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Brevity

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. – Horace

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Brevity

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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. – Hilaire Belloc

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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic. – Allen Ginsberg

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In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But thats not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account. – Joe Nichols

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Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated. – Mason Cooley

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