Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
DOROTHY PARKERThe only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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