Anecdotes Quote by Dorothy Parker

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to…

— Dorothy Parker

“I told her about the best and the worst. The slow and sleepy places where weekdays rolled past like weekends and Mondays didn’t matter.…

— Vikki Wakefield

“She cleared her throat once or twice, and said something about poor people should eat a lot of herrings, as they were most nutritious,…

— Barbara Comyns

“She dreamt in shades of amethyst, drinking the deep purple elixir in ballads of wood nymphs, tiptoeing by elves that hid in the veiled…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror."

— Frank Carson

“She even managed to avoid various and sundry bits of animal husbandry that seemed to find warm, fallish tarmac to be to their liking.…

— Lynn Kurland

She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep.…

— Alice Meynell

“If you count sheep before you go to sleep, are you barrrrr'd from dreams?”

— Benny Bellamacina

“She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had…

— Victor Hugo

“Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you…

— sarah ruhl

There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think…

— Neil Gaiman

If I could trade mistakes for sheep. Count me away, before you sleep.

— Panic At The Disco