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.
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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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