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Quotations By Dorothy Parker


Beauty
Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine.

Change
Ducking for apples; change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Emotion
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Wealth
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". -- Dorothy Parker

Wit
There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply callisthenics with words.