Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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