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?
DOROTHY PARKERRidicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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