I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER