And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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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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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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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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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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