Quote #20

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

More from Dorothy Parker

  1. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
  2. [On her abortion] It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
  3. There is no such hour on the present clock as 6:30, New York time. Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'…
  4. You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
  5. [On being told of Calvin Coolidge's death] How do they know?
  6. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
  7. It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
  8. That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.

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