Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERIt’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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 hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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