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.
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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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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