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 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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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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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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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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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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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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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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The writer’s way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
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This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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