Friday, November 22, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Dorothy Parker

« All quotes from this author
 

Excuse my dust.
--
Her proposed epitaph for herself, quoted in Vanity Fair (June 1925)

 
Dorothy Parker

» Dorothy Parker - all quotes »



Tags: Dorothy Parker Quotes, Authors starting by P


Similar quotes

 

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!

 
Omar Khayyam
 

You are ungraceful: "Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. "With reverence be it spoken..." The only thing bad is their excuse. 58

 
Blaise Pascal
 

Clive Barker: It's an excuse to look at my groin.
Craig Ferguson: I'm European - I don't need an excuse.

 
Craig Ferguson
 

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

 
Viggo Mortensen
 

Dust, who is not dust? I am dust. But I am your Member of Parliament, nevertheless.

 
Halldor Laxness
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact