Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKERI 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.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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What 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.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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