Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
DOROTHY PARKER