Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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