Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
DOROTHY PARKER