A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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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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