There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
DOROTHY PARKERI like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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