Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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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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