If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
DOROTHY PARKERNow I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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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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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.
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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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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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But I don’t give up; I forget why not.
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I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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