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Quotes About Parlor

It won't be cold in the parlor," she said. "Or Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, maybe it will. But everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.
~ Brandon Sanderson
and tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.
~ Herman Melville
Now she could only shape him to her own ideal. She preferred him as a father, tall and gentle-voiced. She tried him in good clothes. She sat him gravely in a parlor, amid the rustle of silk dresses. She heard the clink of silver on a china rim.
~ Karen Fisher
He's killed himself," she cried. "It's unfort'nate Stiggs done over again there goes another counterpane—God pity his poor mother!—it will be the ruin of my house. Has the poor lad a sister? Where's that girl?—there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with—"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;"—might as well kill both birds at once.
~ Herman Melville
Parlor talk seems to me on much more promising ground worrying over conformity than gnawing the bones of Freud.
~ Herman Wouk
For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
~ George Ade
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
But Savinio's Milan is even better: The fog is cozy. It transforms the city into an enormous candy box, and its inhabitants into pieces of sugar candy… Women and girls pass hooded in the fog. A light vapor huffs around their nostrils and at their half-open mouths… You find yourself in a parlor stretched by mirrors… you embrace, each still fragrant with fog, as the fog outside-discreet, silent, protective- presses against the window like a curtain…
~ Umberto Eco
How old do you have to be before people treat you as a person? Cooking's not like a piece a clever child stands up and recites or a parlor trick one performs for the adults. Of course I can cook.
~ Laird Koenig
About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street.
~ lapham lewis h ii
Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P——, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
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.
~ Chris LeDoux
When you are discovered by a householder—with revolver—in his parlor at half-past three in the morning, it is surely an injudicious move to lay stress on your proficiency as a burglar. The householder may be supposed to take that for granted.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
There's no such thing as a perfect murder," Tom said to Reeves. "That's just a parlor game, trying to dream one up. Of course you could say there are a lot of unsolved murders. That's different.
~ Patricia Highsmith
I was just thrown out of the barista parlor. Came to close to the Slayer. Amazing place!
~ Andrew Zimmern
I am wonderful fun to talk to. I'm a consummate professional. People leave my parlor in states. You are here. It's conversation-time. Shall we discuss Byzantine erotica?
~ David Foster Wallace
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit, but it never went back inside the bedroom again. So she put something in there to represent the spirit like a Virgin Mary image in a church. The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
A few guttural words caused Helen's steps to slow as she neared the upstairs parlor. The sounds of Welsh curses had become quite familiar during the past week, as Mr. Winterborne grappled with the limitations of his injuries and the heavy leg cast.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The drapery was so thick and the furniture so cloaked that I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb-wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner. It wasn't as dusty or smoky as one expects a parlor to be, but all the wood had the weight of card catalogs and the fabric seemed soaked in wine. Knee-high sculptures perched in corners and by the fireplace, while jacketless books crowded on shelves, peering down like old professors too tired to speak to one another.
~ Rachel Cohn
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.
~ Katherine Moennig
In the end they worked out that Angus must have sneaked into Naomi's love parlor before his trouser snake addendums were, you know…adjusted. Super-Cat!!! He is without doubt the 007 of the cat world.
~ Louise Rennison
His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore drinking sherry out of a coffee cup.
~ John Cheever
The chocolate parlor was the only business establishment in this part of Evertrue, nestled in the basement of a house in the shadow of Leigh where it could draw students, scholars and the would-be cognoscenti of the city.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth