The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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