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Good Quotes by Dorothy Parker
- Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
- Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
- That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable…
- They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.
- Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord;…
- I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if…
- 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…
- Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote.…
- I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But…
- It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and…
- God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off…
- London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it…
- Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
- It has lately been drawn to your correspondent's attention that, at social gatherings, she is not the human magnet she would be. Indeed, it turns…
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
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- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle