Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
DOROTHY PARKERThose who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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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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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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