Who quipped that?

[french frank]

Perhaps lowering the social tone, I've always treasured Ted Ray's observation in 'Does the Team Think?':

'I like dreams. You meet a better class of woman there.'

Or Bob Monkhouse:

"They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now."

[amateur51]

A visitor commented on the small size of Dorothy Parker's new apartment to which Parker replied

"Oh all I need is a place to lay my hat and a few friends!"

[Ockeghem's Razor]

"Litaniae Lauretanae, or Litany of Loretto, is a thirteenth century litany in honour of the Virgin Mary. It is sung every evening at Loretto and is much sung in Italy generally. It is frequently used at Benediction after the 'O Salutaris'. Palestrina composed many settings of it and modern composers too many."

Percy Scholes, "The Oxford Companion to Music" 9th edition.

[kernelbogey]

"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."

Groucho Marx

'Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.'

~ Mark Twain (of Henry James)

[Flosshilde]

A visitor commented on the small size of Dorothy Parker's new apartment to which Parker replied

"Oh all I need is a place to lay my hat and a few friends!"

She also said that "if all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised"

or "if all the coeds at Yale were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised"

[Ockeghem's Razor]

British MEP to Dr Otto von Hapsburg: Are you watching the Austria-Hungary match tonight?
OvH: Oh? Who are we playing?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

She also said that "if all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised"
or "if all the coeds at Yale were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised"

If all the students who fell asleep in my lessons were laid end to end on the floor




they'd be a lot more comfortable.

[Ockeghem's Razor]

From Maurice Bowra's 'Memories':

Oxford don on visit to college farm and observing a bull impregnating a cow: Omne animal post coitum triste.
Fellow Oxford don: Yes, there is in London a firm of solicitors called Mann, Rodgers and Greaves.

[amateur51]

Way behind a deadline with some copy, Dorothy Parker retreated to the ladies, where she could hide behind the locked door. Aware of this, the editor dispatched an underling to shout under the door that the editor was waiting. At this intrusion Parker bellowed back at the underling "Tell him I've been too fucking busy ... and vice versa!"

[Flosshilde]

She also said that "if all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised"

or "if all the coeds at Yale were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised"

I wonder why she thought that the girls at Yale were 'most likely to'? What did she have against the girls at other universities?