But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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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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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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And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
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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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[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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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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