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Dorothy Quotes & Sayings

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You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately. — Dorothy Draper

A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After gazing at it a little in silence: 'I don't believe it,' he said. — Dorothy L. Sayers

For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market. — Dorothy Day

Quilts need air and sunlight every week to keep them fresh and a long soak in summer. — Dorothy Adamek

Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody 'got' me," he said. — Dorothy Dunnett

I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara. — Pat Conroy

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. — Dorothy Parker

To mention honor was to suggest its opposite. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful. — Dorothy Day

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't. (145) — Dorothy Allison

he had never imagined she would leave him for messing around with girls he would never have married and didn't love. — Dorothy Allison

There's no place like home," Dorothy — Chris Colfer

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards. — Dorothy Gish

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books. — Dorothy Parker

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me. — Dorothy Atkinson

If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully. — Dorothy West

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. — Dorothy Nolte

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom? — Dorothy Parker

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom. — Dorothy Dunnett

Without Satan, no Christ. — Dorothy Norman

I'll have a martini...two at the most. Three, I'm under the table...four, I'm under the host. — Dorothy Parker

Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil. — Dorothy Koomson

I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but when you're near me I'm in the mood for love. — Dorothy Fields

We have to realize we are building a movement. — Dorothy Height

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do. — Dorothy Height

I have lost you before I have found you. — Dorothy Dunnett

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B. — Dorothy Parker

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After. — Dorothy Cannell

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, however offensive they may be. — Dorothy L. Sayers

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. — Dorothy Parker

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice. — Dorothy Thompson

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do. — Dorothy Parker

Scratch a king and find a fool! — Dorothy Parker

Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement. — Dorothy Lamour

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker

When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered. — Dorothy Thompson

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you. — Dorothy Day

LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine.
CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch. — Dorothy Parker

I've decided to be selfish and keep you all to myself for a while. — Dorothy Garlock

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think. — Dorothy Kilgallen

You say wicked like it's a good thing. — Danielle Paige

If I did not know how to live, I shall know how to die. — Dorothy Dunnett

The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away. — Dorothy Day

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them — Dorothy Parker

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day. — Dorothy Parker

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. — Dorothy Parker

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. — Dorothy Gilman

Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space. — Dorothy Dunnett

It was a tragic and annihilating war, in which intellect fought naked with intellect, and the blows fell not upon the mind but upon the soul. — Dorothy Dunnett

What's purple mean?"
Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting — Richelle Mead

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. — Dorothy Dunnett

It was the thought of him that I had problems with, I realised. The reality was really rather desirable. — Dorothy Koomson

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Very dangerous things, theories. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Youth is a disease from which we all recover. — Dorothy Fuldheim

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data. — Dorothy Denning

If he is tired, and they put a foot wrong, he will choose the one unmentionable response and make it. He did it last night. — Dorothy Dunnett

Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter. — Dorothy Day

I'm a weaver. I'm what is connecting this world to the world you come from. My purpose is to show you your choices. — Brynn Myers

Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. — Dorothy Dunnett

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids. — Dorothy Malone

We're not all called to be Dorothy Day. — Moira Kelly

And isna Sybilla a wee love o' a bitch?'

'You say the nicest things about my mother,' said Lymond. — Dorothy Dunnett

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever. — Dorothy Koomson

A rhyme doesn't make a song. — Dorothy Fields

I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it. — Dorothy Hamill

Coercion. The unpardonable crime. — Dorothy Richardson

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. — Dorothy Parker

I've always thought that we have to bring our spirituality into our everyday life such as even brushing our teeth with God. — Dorothy Maclean

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself. — Dorothy L. Sayers

She carried her head like a lady and her body like a snake. — Dorothy B. Hughes

If
you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done. — Dorothy Height

There's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. — Dorothy Parker

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality ... — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away. — Dorothy Parker

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world — Dorothy Nolte

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. — Dorothy Parker

Salad is never more appetizing than when served in a large wooden bowl. — Dorothy Draper

Once I was born, her hopes had turned and I had climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun — Dorothy Allison

What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains? — Dorothy L. Sayers

Their pooled emotions wouldn't fill a teaspoon. — Dorothy Parker

A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence. — Dorothy L. Sayers

who the heck is dorothy gale? — Douglas Preston

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story. — Dorothy Allison

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book. — Dorothy Parker

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. — Dorothy Parker

Flattery makes fools of the best of us. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Satisfaction played across his face in an inescapable symphony of creases and twitches and twinkling blue eyes. — Dorothy Adamek

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing. — Dorothy Allison

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens. — Dorothy Cotton

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say. — Dorothy McGuire

The first thing a principle does is kill somebody — Dorothy L. Sayers

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. — Dorothy Fields

Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps - — Thomm Quackenbush

For to Ade, ... the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was. — Dorothy Day

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker

We wanted a feminist revolution. I wanted it like a lover. I wanted it like justice. — Dorothy Allison