A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
DOROTHY PARKEROf course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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