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.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of 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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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