I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
DOROTHY PARKERShould they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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