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Only Quotes by Dorothy Parker
- As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.
- (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…
- Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
- The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
- The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
- What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean…
- Money is only congealed snow.
- Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
- Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.
- The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
- Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
- I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home…
- Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare,…
- I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
- If you would learn what God thinks about money, you have only to look at those to whom he has given it.
- Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
- Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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