Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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