Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
DOROTHY PARKERThere is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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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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.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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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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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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