I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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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 definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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