A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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