Dorothy Parker Quotes

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Birthday, Age, May

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  Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

  Dorothy Parker

  Creativity, Eye, Mind

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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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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• 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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• You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dogma, Tricks, Wit

  Attributed to Dorothy Parker after her death in Robert E. Drennan "The Algonquin Wits" (p. 124), 1968.

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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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• Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

  Dorothy Parker

  Humorous, Voice, Looks

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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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• A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hangover, Wrath, Grapes

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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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• Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

  Dorothy Parker

  Heterosexuality Is, Diversity, Normal

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• If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sex, Party, Skirts

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Writing, Kick Ass

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• I hate writing, I love having written.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hate, Writing, Written

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