You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
DOROTHY PARKERI like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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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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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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