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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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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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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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