A Quote by Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker

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Brevity Lingerie Soul

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Dorothy Parker
American - Poet
August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

Michael R. Burch

Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare

I am the face of my friend Yasmine Eslami's lingerie brand, so I have an entire collection of her lingerie.

Jeanne Damas

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Theophile Gautier

You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.

Hector Hugh Munro

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.

Dita Von Teese

He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

Martial

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.

Judith Viorst

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

William Shakespeare

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

Arthur Lynch

I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

Karen McDougal

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Antonio Porchia

I'm not at all interested in doing clothes for movies or stage, in stage dressing or costuming. Nor can I design lingerie, for I never wear any! At one time I used to wear a lot of lingerie but now I'm in a mood of total nudity!