If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
DOROTHY PARKERVice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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 was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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