A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
DOROTHY PARKERAll 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?
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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