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Love Quotes by Dorothy Parker

42 Love quotes by Dorothy Parker

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Love can feel like quicksilver, slipping through fingers if you try to hold it tight. The quotes describe unrequited love, fleeting moments, and the bittersweet cycle of longing. They also paint love as a bright summer day that can vanish as fast as it appears.

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Somebody was using the pencil.

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

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I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

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I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

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The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

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Everybody's got their troubles.

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

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

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The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

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She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.

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Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

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I shudder at the thought of men… I'm due to fall in love again

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If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

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Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?

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The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

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The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

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The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

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Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very…

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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your…

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong;…

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[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which…

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“And let her loves, when she is dead Write this above her bones, "No more she lives to give us bread Who…

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My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a…

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Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but…

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My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In…

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Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been…

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Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly…

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“A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And…

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“Love Song My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet…

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“To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must…

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Lonely is a man without love.

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Every love's the love before in a duller dress

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I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.

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

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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so,…

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I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

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This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

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My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.

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Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I…

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say,…