It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
DOROTHY PARKERA girl’s best friend is her mutter.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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