I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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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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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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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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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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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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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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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