Dorothy Parker Quotes

The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories written about me or stories that were written that were trying to imply or infer things that weren't true.

Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Remember this about any slander. Denial only emphasizes, and gives added importance to falsehood. Let it alone and it will die for want of nourishment.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Fake news has been around as long as news has been around.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.

If I dated as many people as they said I have, then I would be dead, because it's just not possible.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

When you're in the middle of a rumor storm, your two choices are not very good .... And there are some Americans who will believe that where there's smoke there's fire.

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

League-wide, 99 percent of the rumors are just way off base.

Someone's always saying something about me.

Just because reporters say something over and over and over again doesn't start to make it true.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.