Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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 Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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