I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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