If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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