And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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