The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKERShould they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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 girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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