Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
DOROTHY PARKER
DOROTHY PARKER
Dorothy Parker on challenge
Dorothy Parker115 quotes“Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.”
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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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Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Women and elephants never forget.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming.
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