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title: "122 Parlor Quotes by 110 authors"
description: "Browse 122 Parlor quotes by 110 authors. Discover the best Parlor sayings and thoughts."
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> [For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-ade/for-parlor-use-the-vague-generality-is-a-life-saver/)

[George Ade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-ade/)

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> [Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damon-runyon/damon-runyon-a-day-coach-boy-in-a-parlor-car-seat/)

[Damon Runyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damon-runyon/)

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> [I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/i-am-not-a-nurse-escorting-six-lunatics-to-the-ice-cream-parlor/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

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> [BEAUTY PARLOR: A place where women curl up and dye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikhil-saluja/beauty-parlor-a-place-where-women-curl-up-and-dye/)

[Nikhil Saluja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikhil-saluja/)

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> [A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ram-n-g-mez-de-la-serna/a-piano-store-looks-like-a-funeral-parlor-for-music/)

[Ramon Gomez de la Serna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ram-n-g-mez-de-la-serna/)

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> [I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-dangerfield/i-went-to-a-massage-parlor-it-was-self-service/)

[Rodney Dangerfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-dangerfield/)

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> [Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phyllis-diller/most-people-get-an-appointment-at-a-beauty-parlor-i-was-committed/)

[Phyllis Diller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phyllis-diller/)

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> [“Glory, in the tattoo parlor, with the gun.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-marie-bell/glory-in-the-tattoo-parlor-with-the-gun/)

[Dana Marie Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-marie-bell/)

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> [To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/to-throw-the-christian-into-the-furnace-is-to-put-him-into-christ-s/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/you-can-t-imagine-parlor-ballads-drifting-out-of-high-rise-multi/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

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> [It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/triple-h/it-takes-more-than-some-mind-games-a-couple-of-parlor-tricks-to-get/)

[Triple H](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/triple-h/)

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> [The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zora-neale-hurston/the-spirit-of-the-marriage-left-the-bedroom-and-took-to-living-in-the/)

[Zora Neale Hurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zora-neale-hurston/)

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> [We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-kennedy/we-not-only-romanticize-the-future-we-have-also-made-it-into-a-growth/)

[Eugene Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-kennedy/)

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> [A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-sutherland/a-nuisance-may-be-merely-a-right-thing-in-the-wrong-place-like-a-pig/)

[George Sutherland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-sutherland/)

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> [The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-american-suffrage-movement-has-been-until-very-recently/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

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> [I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-hardy/i-m-into-parlor-dramas-i-m-into-theatre-i-m-trained-for-the-stage-i/)

[Tom Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-hardy/)

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> [But always and sometimes questioning the old modes And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor, Standing tall in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ashbery/but-always-and-sometimes-questioning-the-old-modes-and-the-new/)

[John Ashbery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ashbery/)

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> [conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-graham/conformity-has-been-a-devastating-thing-its-ill-effects-continue/)

[Virginia Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-graham/)

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> [Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/money-which-represents-the-prose-of-life-and-which-is-hardly-spoken/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gisele-bundchen/when-i-came-to-new-york-and-i-opened-the-window-of-the-thirty-fifth/)

[Gisele Bundchen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gisele-bundchen/)

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> [The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-rock/the-thing-that-surprised-me-the-most-is-just-how-much-money-women/)

[Chris Rock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-rock/)

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> [If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-barnard/if-the-poor-overweight-jogger-only-knew-how-far-he-had-to-run-to-work/)

[Christiaan Barnard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-barnard/)

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> [Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/any-moral-philosophy-is-exceedingly-rare-this-of-menu-addresses-our/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graydon-carter/only-institutions-that-go-about-the-old-fashioned-business-of-taking/)

[Graydon Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graydon-carter/)

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> [I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/veronica-roth/i-see-a-kind-of-thirst-in-her-expression-the-same-one-i-saw-when-she/)

[Veronica Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/veronica-roth/)

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> [About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-h-lapham/about-the-presence-of-death-and-dying-i-don-t-remember-the-society-in/)

[Lewis H. Lapham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-h-lapham/)

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> [They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/they-say-of-me-and-so-they-should-it-s-doubtful-if-i-come-to-good-i/)

[Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/)

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> [The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/the-floor-of-ice-cream-parlor-bothered-me-it-was-black-and-white/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

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> [In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-brooks/in-real-life-people-fart-in-the-movies-people-don-t-why-not-farts-are/)

[Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-brooks/)

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> [There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/there-s-a-kind-of-decadence-about-all-this-if-9-11-was-really-an/)

[Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/)

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> [I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-believe-a-leaf-of-grass-is-no-less-than-the-journeywork-of-the/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherynne-m-valente/i-still-think-of-myself-as-a-house-ravan-tried-to-fix-this-problem-of/)

[Catherynne M. Valente](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherynne-m-valente/)

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> [“Are broken windows a new decorating theme around here?” Archer asked, coming up behind Jenna and me and poking his head into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-hawkins/are-broken-windows-a-new-decorating-theme-around-here-archer-asked/)

[Rachel Hawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-hawkins/)

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> [“The aroma of chicken broth and beef pie wafted into the parlor. She set down the tray of food on the low…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherry-thomas/the-aroma-of-chicken-broth-and-beef-pie-wafted-into-the-parlor-she/)

[Sherry Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherry-thomas/)

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> [“We got dressed, and walked downstairs and into the parlor. Everyone was clean in the clean parlor, and waiting for supper, sitting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/we-got-dressed-and-walked-downstairs-and-into-the-parlor-everyone-was/)

[James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/)

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> [“In northwest Seattle, there is an immensely popular 'old-fashioned' ice cream parlor. It is modern, spotless, and gleaming, bursting with comfortable looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-reich/in-northwest-seattle-there-is-an-immensely-popular-old-fashioned-ice/)

Charles Reich

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> [“Tranquility is the soul of our community.” Not a quarter mile’s distance away, Susanna Finch sat in the lace-curtained parlor of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-dare/tranquility-is-the-soul-of-our-community-not-a-quarter-mile-s/)

[Tessa Dare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-dare/)

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> [“I would expect such behavior from the children,not from their mother." She tsked at him, not even a little daunted. "Aren't you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johanna-lindsey/i-would-expect-such-behavior-from-the-children-not-from-their-mother/)

[Johanna Lindsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johanna-lindsey/)

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> [“In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/in-the-parlor-was-a-huge-camera-on-wheels-like-the-ones-used-in/)

[Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> [“The beauty parlor is where everything interesting in life, everything alluring, is experienced firsthand, physically, rather than through the spectrum of some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-carver/the-beauty-parlor-is-where-everything-interesting-in-life-everything/)

Lisa Carver

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                        "text": "In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.",
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                        "text": "“In northwest Seattle, there is an immensely popular 'old-fashioned' ice cream parlor. It is modern, spotless, and gleaming, bursting with comfortable looking people on a warm summer evening. The parlor is dedicated to nostalgia, from the old-time decor to the striped candy, the ragtime music, the costumes of the smiling young waiters, the Gibson-girl menu with its gold-rush type, and the open-handed hospitality of the Old West. It serves sandwiches, hamburgers, and kiddie 'samiches,' but its specialty is ice-cream concoctions, all of them with special names, including several so vast and elaborate that they cost several dollars and arrive with so much fanfare that all other activities stop as the waiters join in a procession as guards of honor. Nobody seems to care that the sandwiches and even the ice cream dishes have a curious blandness, so that everything tastes rather alike and it is hard to remember what one has eaten. Nothing mars the insistent, bright, wholesome good humor that presses on every side. Yet somehow there is pathos as well. For these patrons are the descendants of pioneers, of people who knew the frontiers, of men who dared the hardships of Chilkoot Pass to seek gold in the Klondike. That is their heritage, but now they only sit amid a sterile model of the past, spooning ice cream while piped-in ragtime tinkles unheard.”",
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                        "text": "“Tranquility is the soul of our community.” Not a quarter mile’s distance away, Susanna Finch sat in the lace-curtained parlor of the Queen’s Ruby, a rooming house for gently bred young ladies. With her were the room house’s newest prospective residents, a Mrs. Highwood and her three unmarried daughters. “Here in Spindle Cove, young ladies enjoy a wholesome, improving atmosphere.” Susanna indicated a knot of ladies clustered by the hearth, industriously engaged in needlework. “See? The picture of good health and genteel refinement.” In unison, the young ladies looked up from their work and smiled placid, demure smiles. Excellent. She gave them an approving nod. Ordinarily, the ladies of Spindle Cove would never waste such a beautiful afternoon stitching indoors. They would be rambling the countryside, or sea bathing in the cove, or climbing the bluffs. But on days like these, when new visitors came to the village, everyone understood some pretense at propriety was necessary. Susanna was not above a little harmless deceit when it came to saving a young woman’s life. “Will you take more tea?” she asked, accepting a fresh pot from Mrs. Nichols, the inn’s aging proprietress. If Mrs. Highwood examined the young ladies too closely, she might notice that mild Gaelic obscenities occupied the center of Kate Taylor’s sampler. Or that Violet Winterbottom’s needle didn’t even have thread.”",
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                        "text": "“I would expect such behavior from the children,not from their mother.\" She tsked at him, not even a little daunted. \"Aren't you the least bit curious?\" \"Certainly,but I can wait until-\" \"But I can't wait,\" she cut in passionately. \"Come with me, Warren. I'll be careful with it. And if it's nothing more'n a simple gift, albeit a mysterious one, then I'll have the box wrapped up again perfectly, so no one will know we tampered with it.\" \"You're serious about this?\" he asked. \"You're actually going to sneak downstairs in the middle of the night like an errant schoolgirl-\" \"No,no, we are, like two perfectly sensible adults making a reasonable effort to solve a mystery that has been around far too long.\" He chuckled at that point, used to his wife's strange logic, and used to her ignoring any of his attempts at sternness.But then that was the magic of Amy.She was unlike any other woman he'd ever known. He gave in gracefully with a smile. \"Very well,fetch our robes and some shoes.I would imagine the fire has been banked in the parlor, so it will be a mite chilly.\" It wasn't that long before they were standing next to The Present, Warren merely curious, Amy finding it hard to contain her excitement, considering what she expected to find beneath the pretty cloth wrapping.The parlor wasn't chilly at all,since whoever had lef the room last had closed the doors to contain the earlier warmth, and Warren had closed them again before he lit several of the lamps. But the doors opened once more, giving Amy quite a start since she was just reaching for The Present when it happened, and Jeremy said as he entered the room, \"Caught in the act,eh? Amy,for shame.\" Amy,noticeably embarrassed despite the fact that Jeremy wasn't just her cousin, but one of her closest friends, said stiffly, \"And what,pray tell, are you doing down here at this hour?\" He winked at her and said dryly, \"Same thing you are, I would imagine.\" She chuckled then. \"Scamp. Close the door while you're at it.\" He started to,but stepped out of the way instead as Reggie sauntered in, barefoot and still in the process of tying her bed robe. When everyone else there just stared at her, she huffed indignantly, \"I did not come down here to open The Present-well, maybe I did, but I would have chickened out before actually doing so.\" \"What a whopper, Reggie,\" Derek said as he came in right behind her. \"Nice try, though. Mind if I borrow that lame excuse? Better than having none a'tall.”",
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                        "text": "“In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain.”",
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                        "text": "“The beauty parlor is where everything interesting in life, everything alluring, is experienced firsthand, physically, rather than through the spectrum of some screen or another. It's so emotional in there! And all these people are stroking your hair. The atmosphere is centuries old, yet very now too. Elba is not bound to our technological era. Were armageddon to befall us tomorrow and wipe our electricity and organized delivery systems, elba would still have a job. Her gossip would take the place of associated press wire services. Instead of using bleach in a bottle, she'd squeeze the juice out of an unfortunate iguana directly onto her customer's hair. A woman like elba finds a way.”",
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