Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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