Top 104 Parlor Quotes & Sayings

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.

After searching for a space, I parked behind the tattoo parlor in front of a sign that said NO PARKING. Since it didn't specify to whom it was referring, I figured it couldn't possibly be talking to me.

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 wrong way."

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

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, like a pizza parlor.

I can't think of many places I'd rather spend Saturday afternoon than in a tattoo parlor.

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 life.

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene.

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 star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

I was always told to be a cook in the kitchen, a lady in the parlor and a wh--e in the bedroom.

I don't go and sit in parlor for two to three hours - that's not my cup of tea, but I make sure I am nice and well dressed.

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much.

Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!

Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.

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.

Willy Wonka had his chocolate factory; I have my Fear & Fancy Parlor.

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

I was just thrown out of the barista parlor. Came to close to the Slayer. Amazing place!

Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper.

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 pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

I got mobbed at a pizza parlor. Kids and especially girls went going crazy. They got so excited.

conformity has been a devastating thing. Its ill effects continue right to this day. Customers still look at the woman in the next chair and say, 'I'll have what she has.' That's all right for ordering at a restaurant - but not in a beauty parlor.

What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.

I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos.

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because I didn't like the feeling of the particular image at a particular size. The Parlor needed to be large because I wanted it to feel like a full-size room you could step into. Unfortunately for me, I paint the same way on an eight-foot canvas as I do on a five-inch miniature. I still use very tiny brushes and noodle every square inch. It took me nearly a year to paint The Parlor.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.

I am a U.S. senator from North Carolina. I'm worried about doing the business on the Capitol Hill. I'm not going to get into the parlor games and the political discussions about a separate and co-equal branch.

For $60, I once bought a neck massage at a 'massage parlor' that advertised in 'The Washington Post.'

My wife went to a beauty parlor and got a mudpack; for two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.