Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
DOROTHY PARKERFriends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do 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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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