Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Writing well is the best revenge.
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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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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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