Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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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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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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