[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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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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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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