People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
DOROTHY PARKERWhat ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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 all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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