I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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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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All 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?
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If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find 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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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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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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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