By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
DOROTHY PARKERIt was written without fear and without research.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for 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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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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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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