And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERI like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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