Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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