Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
DOROTHY PARKERI don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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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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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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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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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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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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