People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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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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