The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKERIf you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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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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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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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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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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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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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
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