The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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