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?
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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