Dorothy Parker Quotes

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• Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

  Dorothy Parker

  Birthday, Age, May

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• If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nice, Magnolias, Social Graces

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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  Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

  Dorothy Parker

  Intelligent, Appreciate, Audience

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Two, Alcohol

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Inspiring, God

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  Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

  Dorothy Parker

  Creativity, Eye, Mind

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• You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Women, Thinking

  On being challenged to use "horticulture" in a sentence, in John Keats You Might as well Live (1970) p. 46

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• If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Happy, Writing

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• Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dirty, Hands, Missing

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• The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

  Dorothy Parker

  Morning, Tongue, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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  The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

  Dorothy Parker

  Law, Laws Of Life, Dependable

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.200, Penguin

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• A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hangover, Wrath, Grapes

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• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Reading, Beer

  Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

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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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• 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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• 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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• Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

  Dorothy Parker

  Honesty, Mean, Where You Are

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• If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sex, Yale, Would Be

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• Four be the things I am wiser to know:
  Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
  Four be the things I'd been better without:
  Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
  Three be the things I shall never attain:
  Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
  Three be the things I shall have till I die:
  Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hope, Laughter, Eye

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Writing, Problem

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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.

  Dorothy Parker

  Years, Style, Garments

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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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• 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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