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.
DOROTHY PARKERI can’t write five words but that I change seven.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
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Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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