Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
DOROTHY PARKERRidicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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