[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERI require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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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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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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