Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKERDrink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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