All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
DOROTHY PARKERNever throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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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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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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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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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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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I don’t mind anything that’s written about me, as long as it’s not true.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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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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