Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
DOROTHY PARKERBy the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet 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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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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 I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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