You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
DOROTHY PARKERYou can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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 require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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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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