I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKERPeople ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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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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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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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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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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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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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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Women and elephants never forget.
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The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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