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Famous Dorothy Parker Quotes
“Scratch a king and find a fool!”
“London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.”
“I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.”
“Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
“Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.”
“I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.”
“Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.”
“A girl's best friend is her mutter.”
“At birth the Devil touched my tongue.”
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”
“Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.”
“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
“Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”
“She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.”
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”