If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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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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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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