The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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