17 quotes by Dorothy Parker

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Gratitude - the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.

Gratitude

4.7 · 47 votes · 140 reads

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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Gossip

3.1 · 25 votes · 183 reads

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I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.

Apathy

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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

Writers

4.4 · 23 votes

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

Love

120 reads

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Feelings
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
3.3 · 48 votes · 155 reads
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Art and Culture
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
4.5 · 22 votes · 111 reads
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Feelings
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
4.2 · 62 votes · 155 reads
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Time
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.
4.8 · 24 votes · 174 reads
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Thought and Reason
The two most beautiful words in the English language are: ''Check Enclosed.''
4.5 · 12 votes · 148 reads
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Virtues
There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
3.4 · 44 votes · 116 reads
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Art and Culture
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
4.6 · 44 votes · 168 reads
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Art and Culture
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
4.0 · 43 votes · 109 reads
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Various
Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
3.7 · 22 votes · 23 reads
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Virtues
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
4.5 · 48 votes · 121 reads
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Society
Work is the province of cattle.
3.0 · 42 votes · 15 reads
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Government and Politics
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
5.0 · 22 votes · 178 reads
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