Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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