If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
DOROTHY PARKERWhat ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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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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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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All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.
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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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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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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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