Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
DOROTHY PARKERYou do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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