But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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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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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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