I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERHis voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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 require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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