You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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