Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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