Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
DOROTHY PARKERA liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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