If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
DOROTHY PARKEROf Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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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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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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