There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
DOROTHY PARKER
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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