I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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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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