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.
DOROTHY PARKERA liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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