Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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