The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKER[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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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 best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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