Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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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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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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