It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
DOROTHY PARKERBewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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