Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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