Dorothy Parker1893–1967If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say No in any of them.
A similar line was later used by Ira Gershwin in “The Saga of Jenny” in Lady in the Dark (1942): “In 27 languages she couldn’t say no.”- Her “Constant Reader” book review of The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, in The New Yorker (October 20, 1928)
- One Perfect Rose (1923)In context
