Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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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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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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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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