Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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