That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERTime may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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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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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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