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.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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