Parlor Quotes
77 quotes by 70 authors
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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
— George Ade
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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 couldn't see my…
— Gisele Bundchen
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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 should be called…
— Graydon Carter
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See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.
— Anthony Quinn
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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 and laws, as…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.
— Groucho Marx
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The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the…
— George Carlin
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PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
— Betty Smith
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I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.
— John Wayne
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I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him,…
— Carly Chaikin
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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.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning…
— Paul Robeson
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You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe,…
— Chris LeDoux
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I was always told to be a cook in the kitchen, a lady in the parlor and a wh--e in the bedroom.
— Melissa Gorga
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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is…
— Michael Ende
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My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in…
— Anne Rice
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Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound…
— Tryon Edwards
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When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig…
— John Paul Stevens
Who Wrote These Parlor Quotes
70 authors contributed a total of 77 Parlor Quotes, led by these top contributors: