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.
DOROTHY PARKERThey tire of quiet, that have known the storm
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
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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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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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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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What 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.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
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