That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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