And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERHe is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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