There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERMen seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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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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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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