He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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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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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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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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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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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