Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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