Dorothy Parker Quotes - Page 2

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• I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)

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• Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nice, Vices, Virtue

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• The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hangover, Drunk, Alcohol

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• Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.

  Dorothy Parker

  Differences, Enzymes, Hormones

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• Women and elephants never forget.

  Dorothy Parker

  Memories, Inspiration, Elephants

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Envelopes, Genius

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• Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as delicate and gay As a cherry flower in May. Lady, lady, never speak Of the tears that burn your cheek- She will never win him, whose Words had shown she feared to lose. Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

  Dorothy Parker

  Wise, Flower, Heart

  Dorothy Parker, “The Lady's Reward”

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• Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Writing, Kick Ass

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• He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Eight, Age

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• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

  Dorothy Parker

  Change, Sex, Apples

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• Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

  Dorothy Parker

  Love You, Kick Ass, Hell

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Death, Tombstone, Cutting

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.125, Penguin

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• I hate writing, I love having written.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hate, Writing, Written

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• It was written without fear and without research.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Research, Entertainment

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

  Dorothy Parker

  Marriage, Wedding, Stupid

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.

  Dorothy Parker

  Wise, Strong, Crazy

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• If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hurt, Attitude, Unnecessary

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.264, Penguin

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• Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

  Dorothy Parker

  Good Woman, Looks, Treasure

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

  Dorothy Parker

  Witty, Order, Usual

  New Yorker, 4 Feb. 1928 See Gus Kahn 6; Political Slogans 3

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• But I don't give up; I forget why not.

  Dorothy Parker

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Why Not

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

  Dorothy Parker

  Spring, Women, Memorable

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• Writing well is the best revenge.

  Dorothy Parker

  Revenge, Writing, Wells

  "Fictional character: Sir Hugh Carleton Greene". "Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Believe, Hollywood

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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