That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKERHis voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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