The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERHonesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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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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