If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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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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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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