Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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