Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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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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