Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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