It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
DOROTHY PARKERIf love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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