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.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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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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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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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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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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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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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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