If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
DOROTHY PARKERI like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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