Women and elephants never forget.
DOROTHY PARKERNow, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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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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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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