They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
DOROTHY PARKERIt 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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I 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.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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.
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