And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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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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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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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about 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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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of 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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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