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Do you recognize this woman? It’s Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967) the sharp tongued damsel of the Algonquin Round Table.
Even within that elite group of word smiths, few could match her barbed wit, and many of her quotes are legendary. Tonight, we are going searching for some famous Parker quotes in order to evaluate these Top 10 Quotation Search Engines. This time I have already “tested” the choices; if they didn’t have a good Parker quote, they have no right to be called a quotation site and I passed them by. These ten performed well.
Caution: Mrs. Parker is best not read to children!
“Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.”
“Enjoyed it! One more drink and I’d have been under the host.”
This is perhaps her most famous quote of all.
When asked to use the word “horticulture” in a sentence, she replied:
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.” (Get it?)
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
And then there was that Yale prom…
“If all the girls attending it were laid end to end,” Mrs. Parker said, “I wouldn’t be at all surprised.”
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
“By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.”
“He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.”
“Tell him I’ve been too f**king busy - or vice versa.”
“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
