It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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