Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKERAll I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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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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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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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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