That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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