Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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