Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
DOROTHY PARKERMost good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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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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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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