This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
DOROTHY PARKERLove is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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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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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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