Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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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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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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