A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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