Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
More Quotes from Dorothy Parker:
It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha, my little dear,' I say, 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'Dorothy Parker
On Isadora Duncan There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.
Dorothy Parker
Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.
Dorothy Parker
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 around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen....
Dorothy Parker
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Dorothy Parker
I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
Dorothy Parker
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