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.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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