Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKERMoney cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this — One of you is lying.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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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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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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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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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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