Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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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 hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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 you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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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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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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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.
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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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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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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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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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