Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
DOROTHY PARKERMost good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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