That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERIf I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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