Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKER[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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