Dorothy Parker Quotes

So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

The world is full of contradiction.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.