I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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 lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKER