The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKEROh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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