I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
DOROTHY PARKERA girl’s best friend is her mutter.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
DOROTHY PARKER