Dorothy Parker Quotes

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that secrets are toxic and break up families.

The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.

A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.

Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

False love is only blinder.

The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

What lies lurk in kisses.

The fact that I loved you was the greatest lie I have ever lived.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.