I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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This 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.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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