It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
DOROTHY PARKERThey sicken of the calm who know the storm.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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 hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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