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One Quotes by Dorothy Parker
- If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
- The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.
- This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd…
- (Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that…
- I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament...…
- There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh,…
- I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock…
- Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect…
- Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
- I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings,…
- By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One…
- I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on…
- It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your…
- You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant…
- Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
- Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep…
- In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas,…
- I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the…
- Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them
- One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
- I wish I could drink like a lady I can take one or two at the most Three and I'm under the table Four and…
- Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
- I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any…
- I am never going to be famous...I do not do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even…
- By the time you swear you're his, shivering and sighing, and he vows his passion is infinite and undying. Make a note of this one…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle