A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
DOROTHY PARKERYears are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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Women and elephants never forget.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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