If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKER
The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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