Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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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