Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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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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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 definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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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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