Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think 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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.
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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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