If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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