I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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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 was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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