It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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