And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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