Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
DOROTHY PARKERMoney cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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