“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.”

— Dorothy Parker

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."
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns

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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

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