Writing well is the best revenge.
DOROTHY PARKERTelegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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