Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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