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Dorothy Parker Quotes about Love

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

"Ballade of a Great Weariness" l. 8 (1926)