Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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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 you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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