I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERIf all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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[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.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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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’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKER