Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKERThat woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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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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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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