Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERWomen and elephants never forget.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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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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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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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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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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