Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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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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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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