If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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