Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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