If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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