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.
DOROTHY PARKERMaybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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