Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
DOROTHY PARKERThis is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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