Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
DOROTHY PARKERCreativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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