Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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