Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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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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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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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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 liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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