Dorothy Parker on cheating
Dorothy Parker115 quotes“The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”
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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.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Women and elephants never forget.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker
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I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present.
Bernard MoitessierBernard Moitessier Don’t trust a guy who accuses you of infidelity. He’s cheating. He’s projecting. If you’re living that kind of life, you think everybody else is too.
Bradley CooperBradley Cooper I know all about cheating. I’ve had six very successful marriages.
Bobby HeenanBobby Heenan Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.
Blu CantrellBlu Cantrell My dreams were always of you but every time I closed my eyes you belonged to someone else.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn’t able to know them. That’s what the bikes did, without me having to put any arbitrary philosophy on what it was supposed to be. It enabled human connection.
Ben SolleeBen Sollee Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. ForbesB. C. Forbes Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you’re capable of cheating, lying and killing.
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