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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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 only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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