A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of 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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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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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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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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