Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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