Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERDon’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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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This 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.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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It was written without fear and without research.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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