Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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